I hope everyone who reads the bible digitally uses FOSS apps, like The Light on F-Droid, or even generic ones like Librera Reader. Apps profiting from public domain texts of any kind is scummy.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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they are technically allowed to .. so they do it . and i mean average iq of this world is 80-90 so i think they just download the 1st thing off playstore which is sponsored which is paid by showing them "ads"
we need more technical knowledge among young people instead of having them become a coomer or waste their life playing games (something that huanted me is this: https://futurism.com/the-byte/gen-z-kids-file-systems)
I think some of them add features beyond the obvious ones (offline reading, fulltext search, indexed verses, bookmarks) such as commentary or interpretation, which can be licensed works. (Idk,I have never read the bible.) Still pretty shitty.
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Nope, just adding tracking.
But, doesn't god know where i'm at already?
Instead of telling the "signs" to go to which person, he just tells them to check the cookies
The Gospel of Mary is one of the non-apocryphal texts that has been "almost" lost to time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary
While this is conjectural, researchers believe that it could have been Mary Magdalene's Gospel, identifying her as one of the disciples of Christ, possibly the most important one, as she has the main role in most of the passion and resurrection.
Imagine how different would be twenty centuries of Christianity and Western civilization if Mary had been not only a disciple but the main one.
After all, while the others had doubts, betrayed or denied the Lord, she was ride or die.
I blame Peter, he was probably jealous and a cuck.
Wikipedia says it's apocryphal.
The Gospel of Mary is a non-canonical text discovered in 1896 in a fifth-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic.
For reference, they define apocrypha as:
Apocrypha is biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of Scripture.
Also non-canonical in the above links to New Testament apocrypha.
A lot of those gospels are Gnostic writings. Those came around 200 AD and were a real decision in the church. Had The Gospel of Mary been front and center, Christian Theology would be very different indeed.
The Gospel of Mary isn't necessarily Gnostic, but it slots into other Gnostic texts from the time. Gnosticism was dismissed as heresy early on in the Church. There's a church father named Irenaeus who wrote a book called Against Heresies describing the movement.
This actually used to be a very contentious issue in the early church. It wasn't as rosey as some people like to paint it as. Myself as a Christian, I take it as an interesting read, but not authoritative.
Snarky answer: To suit the whims of whatever power hungry fascist is wielding it these days.
Real answer: probably because Android has changed.
Or some exploit was found in some library the app uses and a patch is rolling downhill.
Probably some new EU regulations