Welcome!

The Sierra Bible[tm] is designed to run anywhere Java is available. For this reason The Sierra Bible Software works great on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and elsewhere.

The Sierra Bible is also free software. Because The Sierra Bible is free, you can share it with your friends, relatives, sunday school class, and chance encounters until your heart is content!

Features ...

Center to the mission of The Sierra Bible was our need to:

1. Allow verses to be embolden as they are read on a page.
2. Easily search a unique, extended set of scriptures.
3. Quickly begin reading from a search or verse reference.
4. Read references and search results in their intended context.
5. Support a predictable, verse-centric page-size more suitable for intensive study, but still operate just like a book.
6. Facilitate the sharing of a unique, numeric, reference identifier (e.g. "5812", rather than "Deuteronomy 33:2".)
7. Create a reference / reader program that can be used by all popular, modern, personal computer systems.
8. Author a free soft-ware that anyone can share and enjoy!

Getting ...

All you need to do to use The Sierra Bible is to:

1. Download the software to your computer. (You can click here to do that.)
2. Unzip the above on your computer to a folder of your choice on your machine.
3. Click on "SierraBible.jar" (*) in your new folder on your computer to start searching the Scriptures and reading the Bible!

About ...

The Sierra Bible Software allows you to search, reference, and read the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Another Testament (aka The Book of Mormon).

For those who are afraid of this book selection (perhaps the Jew afraid of the new testament, the protestant scared of the another testament, or the rest of the planet that ever seems to be afraid of the entire set ;-), please be assured - after decades of studying these books on my own - that I have found their messages to be quite in harmony with the fuzzy-warm feeling. -Indeed, this charismatic harmony is why I have combined them all together into a single, searchable, non-denominational resource for you to enjoy.

Also, note that if reading the Old-Testament does not make one a Jew, and if reading the New Testament does not make one an Anglican, then reading The Book of Mormon does not make one a Latter-Day Saint. --When it comes to recognizing who His Saints truly are, Jesus said that you would know us by our works... not by any brand-name, what we read, or where we choose to spend our time on the week-end.

  - R.A. Nagy

p.s. - While The Sierra Bible is incredibly useful as-is, we are still adding features. Feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions for improvement.

(*) JAVA JAR NOTES

Some folks might need to right-click on the SierraBible.jar, then select the "Run with Java" (sic) option from their file manager. Others might needs administrator rights to run SierraBible.jar for the first time. Still others might like to use "java -jar SierraBible.jar" to start the program from a command-line or terminal session.