About
Most people don't quit the Bible. They quit not understanding it.
Ask around a church and you will hear the same thing. People start in Genesis in January, hit Leviticus in February, and stop. They assume the problem is discipline. It almost never is.
The problem is that nobody taught them how to read it. Scripture was written across roughly 1,500 years, in three languages, into cultures nobody explained. Handed that with no training, a careful reader still comes away with very little. There is a name for the result, biblical illiteracy, and a name for the fix, hermeneutics (how to read the Bible on its own terms).
Protos exists to teach that while you read, instead of asking you to take a class first. Open a verse and the background, the commentary, and the original wording are on the same screen.
Who makes it
Fabio Jonathan Arifin
Founder of Protos · Portland Bible College graduate
I have spent years inside local churches watching the same pattern repeat: people who genuinely want to read Scripture, stalling on it, and concluding they are the problem. They are not. They were handed a hard book and no method. Protos is the method, built into the reading.
Reach me directly at [email protected].
Where the content comes from
Every explanation in Protos traces to a published work by a named editor or scholar, written and published before it ever reached us. You can check any of it, which is the point.
- Bible text
- 7 translations
- Berean Standard, KJV, NET, ASV, WEB, LSV, Darby
- Commentary
- Tyndale and JFB
- Verse by verse, in full
- Dictionaries
- Three trusted classics
- Easton's, Hastings', and Smith's
- People and places
- 4,186 entries
- 363 with a photograph of the real place
- Original languages
- UBS Hebrew and Greek
- Tap any word, with Strong's numbers
- Book introductions
- All 66
- Purpose, author, date, and setting
What Protos is not
- It is not a seminary tool. If you want morphological parsing and a 40-volume library, Logos is the better product and costs accordingly.
- It is not a devotional app. There is nothing wrong with those. This one is for the next question, which is what the passage actually means.
- It is not an AI commentator. The explanations come from published works, attributed on the page where they appear.