{"id":1588,"date":"2022-12-27T07:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2022-12-27T07:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:48:44","slug":"read-through-hebrews-one-verse-at-a-time-in-2023-with-ai-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2022\/12\/read-through-hebrews-one-verse-at-a-time-in-2023-with-ai-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Read through Hebrews One Verse at a Time in 2023 with AI Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/reading-plan\/\">Daily Cross Reference Bible Reading Plan<\/a> (also an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/reading-plan\/feed\">RSS feed<\/a>) walks you through the 303 verses in the book of Hebrews one day at a time, six days a week, with a review every Saturday. It includes up to twelve of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/cross-references\/\">most-popular cross references<\/a> for each verse, as well as an AI-generated summary of how each cross reference relates to the main verse. Each day also contains an AI-written introduction and a concluding prayer that tie together the themes between the main verse and its cross references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, one of the explanations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/reading-plan\/date\/2023-01-01\">January 1<\/a> connects Hebrews 1:1 and Genesis 3:15 like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>Both passages refer to God&#8217;s plan of salvation.<\/strong> Hebrews 1:1 refers to God&#8217;s promise of redemption through the prophets, while Genesis 3:15 refers to the promise of a Redeemer who would come to defeat Satan and restore humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality of the content generated by the AI (GPT-3) feels generally comparable to the typical evangelical devotional; I review the generated content by hand before posting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/four-kinds-of-one-year-bible-reading-plans\/\">proposed a digital-first Bible reading plan<\/a> that goes through the Gospels in a year, including all the cross references for each verse. This reading plan is an implementation of this idea with an AI twist and exposes you to 2,295 different verses, or around 7% of the whole Bible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a full-year, brisk reading plan for 2023 that you haven&#8217;t done before, you might give the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/reading-plan\/\">Daily Cross Reference Bible Reading Plan<\/a> a try. You can bookmark that page, which will update itself every day, or subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/reading-plan\/feed\">RSS feed<\/a>. To get a sense of what the content is like before committing, between now and January 1, the reading plan features some seasonally appropriate verses chosen by <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Daily Cross Reference Bible Reading Plan (also an RSS feed) walks you through the 303 verses in the book of Hebrews one day at a time, six days a week, with a review every Saturday. It includes up to twelve of the most-popular cross references for each verse, as well as an AI-generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,3,15,8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}