Baptist or bust?

JoshInRI
JoshInRI Member Posts: 1,940
edited November 20 in Resources Forum
I am trying to decide if Logos Now is worth keeping or not. I only have my student discount for a few more months. Should I go with Baptist Silver or Gold while I still can? I do not know or make use of original language resources ever. I graduate from seminary in 2 months. What should I buy while i still can?

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  • Colin
    Colin Member Posts: 256 ✭✭

    Hi Josh, 

    My only general advice is that if you are going to buy a Base Package you ought to do it while you have both the student discount and Logos Now as that will get you the best price. Personally, I think Base Packages are the best way to maximise your buying power within Logos.

    One last thought is that even though you are (I assume) baptist, one of the other BPs at a similar price may have resources which will be more useful to you, so don't only consider those packages.

    Colin  

  • Doc B
    Doc B Member Posts: 3,544 ✭✭✭

    Just remember that the fine print says that if you buy on the student discount, you can't transfer the resources. If I'd known that when I started, I'd have changed how I did some stuff.

    Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.

  • Keith Pang
    Keith Pang Member Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭

    You can only transfer to a student that has academic status

    Keith Pang, PhD Check out my blog @ https://keithkpang.wixsite.com/magnifyingjesus

  • JoshInRI
    JoshInRI Member Posts: 1,940

    um....I just fell out of my chair.  what if I die..does my beneficiary get the books in my collections at least.  Colin I like your idea.

    Thanks guys.

  • Keith Pang
    Keith Pang Member Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭

    Of course you can transfer to family at that point, it is only transferable to a person with academic discount if you decide to sell it. 

    Keith Pang, PhD Check out my blog @ https://keithkpang.wixsite.com/magnifyingjesus

  • Joseph Turner
    Joseph Turner Member Posts: 2,853 ✭✭✭

    What are you planning on doing after you graduate?  That would be the deciding factor on how you should proceed.

    Disclaimer:  I hate using messaging, texting, and email for real communication.  If anything that I type to you seems like anything other than humble and respectful, then I have not done a good job typing my thoughts.

  • Erwin Stull, Sr.
    Erwin Stull, Sr. Member Posts: 2,793

    A point to consider, concerning the original language usage and resources. Although you do not use them now, there may be a time that you will have the need.

  • PetahChristian
    PetahChristian MVP Posts: 4,636

    A point to consider, concerning the original language usage and resources. Although you do not use them now, there may be a time that you will have the need.

    Yes, yes, yes, so true!

    Jewish poet, Haim Nachman Bialik wrote that, "Reading the Bible in translation is like kissing your new bride through a veil." There's so much richness of meaning that an ancient reader would have understood, which we miss out on when we only study in English.

    Even if you don't use original languages now, there will certainly come a time when you want to do a bible word study, search for other occurrences of a lemma, or be reading a commentary and want to look up a transliterated word you don't know.

    Thanks to FL for including Carta and a Hebrew audio bible in Logos 9!