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The Content

Overview

The Bible Unpacked (TBU) presents the Bible’s teaching – primarily with Bible verses. There are 7 editions, for non-Christians through to mature Christians. Each edition is a condensed version of the next one up in size. The Home page of this app contains links to each edition.

There are Bible studies based on four of the editions, as indicated on the home page.

The Teaching

This material contains topical Bible teaching. It is largely composed of subheadings followed by Bible verses. Occasionally the verses are followed by a short comment.

The subheadings are derived from the verses that follow them (as opposed to the verses being selected to match the subheadings). The author has attempted to make the subheadings simple descriptions of the common theme of the verses.

As such, the author has not attempted to cover or draw conclusions on all theological topics. Rather, the aim has been to confine the teaching to what is readily apparent in the verses.

The author considers the theology of The Bible Unpacked material to be “evangelical”.

The Author

Paul Mallison has a BA Dip Ed from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has spent the majority of his working life teaching students from a cross section of ages and backgrounds. In his work he has composed numerous teaching materials.

Paul’s father was the late Rev. Dr John Mallison, a best-selling Australian author and international educator. See www.johnmallison.com . Paul is credited with extensive work on the final drafts of the last two of his father’s books.

Regarding a statement of faith, Paul adheres to the Apostle’s Creed.

Other Formats

This app is based on the interactive versions of the 7 editions – www.thebibleunpacked.net/tbu-online . These versions are in html format and are accessible in common web browsers, including on desktops.

In addition to this app and the interactive versions, there are:

• PDFs and eBooks of the 7 editions – www.thebibleunpacked.net/pdfs-ebooks ;
• Bible studies based on four of the editions – in PDF, eBook and interactive formats – www.thebibleunpacked.net/bible-studies ; and
• Microsoft Word files from which the other material is produced – www.thebibleunpacked.net/word-files .

All the material on the TBU website www.thebibleunpacked.net is free.

Uses and Target Audiences

Licensing Information

For licensing information, see Copyright & Licensing.

Using the App

Interactive Features

This app has various interactive features including:

• comprehensive navigation, including menus and thousands of hyperlinks;
• Scripture and subject indexes, with links to the main text.
• the functionality to search headings;
• the capacity to set and name multiple bookmarks; and
• various display settings – including the author's comments, layout settings and color options.

Checking Context

In the other formats (the interactive, PDF & eBook versions of the material), clicking on a passage's reference will take the user to the passage in its chapter on a Bible website. This is to enable users to quickly check the context of a passage. This functionality is not available on this app.

To check a passage's context online efficiently when using this app, users can activate options in the Bible websites section of the Settings.

Updates

For Android users to ensure they have the latest updates:

• close the app;
• open Settings;
• scroll down to and tap The Bible Unpacked;
• tap Storage and cache; and
• tap CLEAR CACHE.

If the app does not appear to be working correctly, repeat the above steps except in the last step choose CLEAR STORAGE instead of CLEAR CACHE. Note that this will also clear any bookmarks you have set.

The above steps are similar for iOS users.

User Privacy

The privacy policy for this app is available at the User Privacy page.

More Details

For more details about TBU in general, go to: www.thebibleunpacked.net/what-is-tbu .