Biblical Topics Help
The "Biblical Topics" webpage provides access to webpages that address a variety of topics. Each of the trees below the table at the top exposes a variety of topics. With each topic there is one or more images that, when clicked, display a web page providing multiple sources that address that specific topic. Each of these topics is also underlined in yellow, indicating that clicking that topic will add it to the table at the top where it can be further researched.
All the topics for the subsequent trees have been combined into the top tree so that access to the other trees provides no additional information versus the first tree.
A topic not shown in the trees (i.e., not in the first tree) can be added to the table at the top by keying it into the "Enter topic" field. The following screenshot shows the result of entering "pornography" (not in the trees) into this field.
In addition to the information available via the images after each topic, the yellow-underlined topics can be added to the top tabl;e by clicking them. The following screenshot shows the result when the "Abortion" and "Adoption" nodes are clicked.
The table at the top, therefore, allows additional research to be performed for each of the topics from the trees as well as researching topics (e.g., pornography) not shown in the trees.
The various columns and their functions for this table are:
Topic - Challenge selected from tree
- uses the ChatGPT chatbot (https://chatgpt.com) to generate an article based on the topic for the row. The request to ChatGPT is prefixed with "According to the LCMS," in order to flavor the response based on the LCMS.
- uses the Perplexity chatbot (https://perplexity.com) to generate an article based on the topic for the row. The request to Perplexity is prefixed with "According to the LCMS," in order to flavor the response based on the LCMS.
- uses the Google search engine (https://www.google.com) to generate search results for the topic for the row.
- searches the Concordia Seminary - Fort Wayne web site for articles pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the Steadfast Lutherans web site for articles pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the KFUO (radio) web site for episodes pertinent to the Bible passage. Unlike the search limited to "Thy Strong Word", this search is not guaranteed to return any results.
- searches the LCMS web site (https://www.lcms.org) for information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the Lutheran Hour Ministries (https://www.lhm.org) web site for information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the Concordia Publishing House (https://www.cph.org) book store for books pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches YouTube (https://www.youtube.com) for movies pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the Lutheran Witness web site (https://witness.lcms.org) for information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the LCMS sermons (https://lcmssermons.org) web site for sermon-related information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches the Christian Cyclopedia website (https://cyclopedia.lcms.org) for information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- searches Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller's personal web page (https://wolfmueller.co), which contains lots of interesting articles, for information pertinent to the topic for the row.
- uses the Yahoo search engine (https://search.yahoo.com) to generate results for the topic for the row.
- uses the DuckDuckGo search engine (https://duckduckgo.com) to generate results for the topic for the row.