The CreationWiki Study Bible is an on-going project meant to present a functional Bible in a wiki format, and one that relies on both internal cross-referencing as well as the study material already present on the site.
The Bible
- Main article: Bible
Central to the project is the text of the King James Bible, the best-selling book in history as well as the most familiar Bible to a world-wide audience. Within Creationwiki the Bible has been broken down into individual chapters, for a total of 1,189. Connecting all of them are templates, which are listed below. Although unfinished as of the time of this writing (February, 2025), each chapter with have as many cross-references as possible, connecting topics, subjects, and thought processes.
Also connecting the Bible are the subject materials necessary for proper Bible study; highlighted words of persons, places, things, or subjects can take the reader out of the Bible to learn in more detail of any given subject.
Dates
To help put it into historical context, the events of each chapter begins with a date, and for most of the Bible - especially the Old Testament - there are two dates. The first date set down in black is that established by the compilations of Bishop James Ussher, the archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, and creator of a chronology of the Bible which sets the date of the Creation to 4004 B.C. His dates of the various individuals and situations in the Bible have been accepted material included in many translations of the Bible in the years since, and are included in the Creationwiki Study Bible.
However, since Ussher was not privy to much source material and may have been off by a century or more in his calculations, a second date is placed alongside his in every chapter. These dates, in maroon, are based upon current scholarly, historical, and archaeological evidence, which as much as possible backs up the written accounts of Scripture.
Subject material
Although only placed within a few chapters as of yet, the plan for this project is to have images and maps placed within each chapter, and only such material that is specific to that chapter.
Old Testament
- Main article: Old Testament
New Testament
The Mediawiki program powering this website has the advantage of displaying colors in the text, and for the New Testament it was appropriate to display two colors for the viewing reader. The first color is red; like any Bible currently in print, red had been traditional to highlight the spoken words of Jesus Christ, and is displayed as such throughout the Gospels and any other book and Epistle where He is quoted.
The second color is brown, and is used here in several chapters of Romans, highlighting the Roman road of salvation; a "route" as it were, for recognizing sin in one's self, and the remedy for it, which is the act of accepting Christ as savior.
- Main article: New Testament
