Portal talk:Bible

message: This intro keeps getting longer and longer. All that is really needed is a few brief statements and a link to the article. Donnie Love 13:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You've posted this under an "Intro" heading, but the contents of the upper box, from Portal:Bible/Intro, do not mention Noah. What proposed removal are you commenting on? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: Would I be allowed to post quotes that most people would reject? Sgeo([ talk]) 22:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allowed 

message: You can now add the selected Bible chapter to your user page using .  Enjoy! BigDT 16:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/Template]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> 

message: ...the the word Christian only appears three times in the whole bible, and that it may have been first used as a derogatory term?
Says who..I find it offensive...did someone magically come up with this or something? Fethroesforia 01:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote this.  What exactly do you find offensive about this?  The fact that Christian is only in the bible three times?  Look it up yourself-it's true.  So I guess you meant that it may have been first used as a derogatory term.  This is one possible origin for the word "Christian" (see , , and many other websites, and I know I have found it in a book or two...here is one: The Student Bible Dictionary, c2000, , page 60).  I have heard it preached and seen it written, so I believe it is probably true.  If you want some evidence, I don't really have time to search for it, so good luck!  Rob 18:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia requires content to be reliable and verifiable.  The two web sources from "some guy's website" and a listserv list are not.  The Student Bible Dictionary is, though .  Still, though, there are three other concerns with having that line here.  (1) Please see Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words.  What historians believe that the term was originally derogatory?  We don't want to give undue weight to a novel theory that is not widely accepted. (2) Portal content is for the purpose of sending readers to an article and "did you know" facts should come from an article - not be something found only in a portal.  (3) This is the Bible portal, not the Christianity portal.  Acts 11:26 says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch."  It gives no context or indication as to whether this term was positive or negative.  As this is a portal dealing with the Bible, not Christianity, nor the whole of ancient history, it is inappropriate here, in my view.  --BigDT 19:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hold on 

message: Bonjour,
There is a wrong external link (see this, written
« http://www.uni-münster.de/NTTextforschung/KgLSGII08_02_27.pdf » ; it must be corrected as « http://www.uni-muenster.de/NTTextforschung/KgLSGII08_02_27.pdf » ; 39 hand corrections are too much for me. Can somebody ask a literate bot to do it ?… Thanxiz.
Budelberger (talk) 13:27, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed… 

message: I have proposed that all portals related to Christianity be placed on autorotation, to make maintenance easier. One thing which would probably have to be done to do that would be to have an idea as to what articles are good enough and available, the latter point relating as well to hoping to not use the same articles all the other Christianity related portals use. To help give us an idea as to what all is out there, I have started a list at User:John Carter/Christianity portals of the articles of the best quality rating that are relevant to the various portals. Any parties wishing to help or discuss are more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 21:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal selections 

message: In Germany, there are -  since the Middle Ages - Children's Bibles (i.e. books that contain some excerpts from the Bible in easy language and with many illustrations) by many authors, illustrators and publishers. This is described in :de:Kinderbibel. In the English Wikipedia I just find The Children's Bible Story Book. Is there really only this one? --84.184.26.69 (talk) 12:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children's Bibles 

message: Can we have an open discussion about historicity notes on Bible-related pages? I am surprised and to be honest taken back by the fact that persons, whose only qualification is to be bible scholars and theologians are used as sources providing historicity to any given fact. These people are by definition believers and members of the religious community and that in turn makes their opinion clearly biased. I would suggest that at the very least, we should strive to only name sources from the historian community in the historicity sections of these pages, and even then only if they can provide more than opinion. For instance, on the page about the Burial of Jesus, three theologians are quoted in the historicity section. Two are quoted merely stating that the burial is part of the Gospels and the third that the accounts "create no impression of being a legend". How is either of these statements any indication, much less proof, of historicity?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krautkontrol (talk • contribs) 07:30, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: In theory, this talk page is only for discussing improvements to the portal, Portal:Bible. Your proposed discussion would work better on a Wikiproject talk page such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bible. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:43, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historicity 

message: I need help on how to classify in Wikidata:
* the biblical human characters
* and the nuances of characters: for example, martyr, virgin, widow, accompanying religious figures.
I have done some, but I am not very convinced. I see a great variety of cases. Nothing homogeneous.
--&beer&love (talk) 21:42, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals is back!
The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.
Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.
As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.
There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals.
Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.
And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.
From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject.      — The Transhumanist    03:26, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status report from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: It seems to me that verse numbers shouldn't normally be included in quotes since they're not actually part of the text, and the verse range is already given as a reference. Obviously there are exceptions such as when the rest of the article is referencing particular verses within the quote. Is there a standard or common pattern around this? ··gracefool 💬 02:02, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a standard around whether verse numbers should be included within bible quotes? 

message: What about the Old Testament? Does every chapter from it have its own wiki page? LaceyUF (talk) 08:32, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. I have come across some of them in the past. Why do you ask? LongLivePortugal (talk) 11:04, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does each chapter of the New Testament have its own wikipedia article?