Scripture First
The Bible is God’s inspired Word and the final authority for faith, doctrine, worship, and Christian living.
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Bible IQ
Theology & Trust
Theology before technology.
Bible IQ is designed to help believers understand, remember, and apply God’s Word while keeping Scripture authoritative, the local church central, and every source clearly identified.
Scripture remains the final authority.
Bible IQ can assist with organization, explanation, connections, historical context, and study structure. It cannot inspire Scripture, replace faithful preaching, become infallible, or stand above the Word of God.
Our Foundation
Built to serve biblical discipleship.
Every major Bible IQ decision should strengthen faithful engagement with Scripture and support the ministry of the local church.
Local Church Central
Bible IQ supports faithful preaching, church membership, pastoral care, fellowship, prayer, and discipleship. It does not replace them.
Pastor-Guided
Official church studies and published church content should be reviewed and approved by authorized church leaders.
Sources Identified
Scripture, church teaching, personal notes, historical quotations, summaries, and AI-assisted content should remain clearly distinguished.
Test Everything
Users are encouraged to compare every explanation, connection, and quotation with Scripture and seek faithful pastoral guidance.
Discipleship Over Novelty
Bible IQ should not pursue technology for its own sake. Features should help believers hear, understand, remember, apply, and live God’s Word.
Our Theological Perspective
Clearly Reformed Baptist.
Bible IQ is being built from a Reformed Baptist theological framework. That means the app is shaped by a high view of Scripture, the sovereignty of God, salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, believer’s baptism, regenerate church membership, and the importance of the local church.
The historic 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith serves as an important theological guide for the app’s doctrine, categories, safeguards, and review standards. The confession does not replace Scripture; it summarizes what Reformed Baptists believe Scripture teaches.
Christians from many evangelical traditions may still benefit from Bible IQ, but the app should not hide or blur its theological foundation.
Scripture and AI
AI is a study assistant—not an authority.
Bible IQ should always make the difference between God’s Word and machine-generated assistance unmistakably clear.
| Scripture | AI-Assisted Content |
|---|---|
| God’s inspired Word | A human-built computational tool |
| Final authority | Never the final authority |
| True and trustworthy | Can be incomplete, mistaken, or misleading |
| Must be believed and obeyed | Must be tested against Scripture |
| Interpreted within faithful biblical context | Useful only when grounded, sourced, and reviewed |
Bible IQ should label AI-assisted explanations clearly, preserve source
provenance where possible, show uncertainty when appropriate, and never
present generated content as Scripture, divine revelation, prophecy, or pastoral authority.
Trust Safeguards
How Bible IQ protects theological clarity.
Clear Content Labels
Content should be visibly identified as Scripture, pastor-published, personal notes, historical quotation, sourced summary, or AI-assisted explanation.
Pastoral Review
Official church studies should remain drafts until reviewed and approved by an authorized pastor, elder, or church leader.
Evidence and Context
Doctrine and Scripture connections should show the passages, context, sources, and reasoning behind meaningful conclusions.
Correction Workflow
Users and church leaders should be able to report theological, quotation, source, or Scripture-reference concerns for review.
Trusted Voices IQ
Historically grounded. Pastor-guided. Clearly sourced.
Bible IQ may include insights from trusted pastors and theologians such as Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur, John Calvin, John Bunyan, Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, R.C. Sproul, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Thomas Watson, J.C. Ryle, and others selected by participating pastors.
These voices remain secondary to Scripture. Bible IQ must never invent quotations, hide uncertainty, or present a paraphrase as exact wording.
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Verified public-domain source
Use exact wording only after verifying the work and edition.
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Licensed or expressly permitted source
Modern copyrighted works require appropriate rights or permission.
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Pastor-entered quotation with citation
Preserve the pastor’s source and require confirmation where uncertain.
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Short excerpt or linked source
Use a compliant excerpt or direct users to the original source.
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Clearly labeled summary
Summaries must never be displayed as exact quotations.
Local Church First
Bible IQ should lead believers toward—not away from—the church.
What Bible IQ Encourages
- Faithful church attendance
- Careful listening to sermons
- Personal Bible reading
- Regular prayer
- Family worship and small-group discussion
- Seeking pastoral guidance when questions arise
What Bible IQ Does Not Replace
- Pastors, elders, or biblical counseling
- Church membership and Christian fellowship
- Corporate worship and the ordinances
- Personal responsibility to study Scripture
- The work of the Holy Spirit
- The authority and sufficiency of God’s Word
From Hearing to Living
Our prayer is that Bible IQ helps believers love Christ and His Word more deeply.
Carry Sunday’s sermon into Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday—then return to the Lord’s Day with greater understanding, stronger remembrance, and a heart ready to worship.