Editorial Policy
Every 7 Scrolls page goes through the same steps: a draft (sometimes AI-assisted), human editing, a check of every Bible reference, and a published date that changes when we update the page. This page explains each step and how we handle disagreements and mistakes.
How a page is made
- Brief. We decide what question the page answers and which passages it must cover.
- Draft. Drafts may be written with the help of AI tools. We say so openly because it affects how much checking a page needs.
- Editing. An editor rewrites the draft for accuracy, clarity, fairness and our voice, and removes anything we cannot support from the text.
- Reference check. Every Bible reference is checked twice: by a script that confirms the book, chapter and verse exist and that any quoted wording matches the published translation, and by a person who confirms the reference actually supports the sentence it is attached to.
- Review. Sensitive topics (for example salvation, Mary, or how to read Revelation) are meant to be reviewed by a theological reviewer. Our review panel is still being formed, so at the moment no page carries a named reviewer. We will not show a reviewer who has not actually reviewed a page. Until reviewers are in place, sensitive pages stay close to the text or are kept out of search results.
- Publication. Pages show their author (currently the 7 Scrolls Editorial Team) and the date of the last update.
Bible text and quotations
Verse text is never typed by hand. It is generated from the published Berean Standard Bible (BSB) and World English Bible (WEB) files, and each quotation is labelled with its translation. We do not alter the WEB text; if we ever had to adapt it, we would not call it the World English Bible. See translations and sources.
Fact and interpretation
- What the text says (who did what, where a word appears, what a verse states) we present as fact, with the reference.
- What the text means we present as interpretation. Where Christians broadly agree, we say so; where they differ, we describe the main views and attribute them, for example “Catholic and Lutheran numbering…” or “Many Protestant readers…”.
- Disputed questions such as dates, authorship and chronology are marked as debated and given with the main positions. On our Bible timeline, for example, the exodus is shown with both the early and the late date.
- We do not invent scholars, statistics or quotations. If we cite a source, it is a real one we have checked.
Hebrew and Greek words
Original-language notes are added by hand from standard lexicons and checked by an editor. We do not generate them automatically from word-alignment data, because automatic alignments can attach a word to the wrong meaning.
Quizzes
Every quiz answer comes with an explanation and the reference where the answer is found. Quiz questions test knowledge of the text, never anyone’s faith. Each question can be reported if you think it is wrong.
Updates
Pages are living documents. When we change the substance of a page we update the “Updated” date. Small fixes of spelling or layout do not change the date.
Corrections
Anyone can report a mistake from any page. We sort reports by seriousness:
| Priority | Examples | What we do |
|---|---|---|
| P0 | A wrong verse or reference; content that misrepresents or is offensive to a Christian tradition | Hide or fix within 24 hours; resolve within 72 hours |
| P1 | A factual error about the Bible, a wrong quiz answer | Fix within 72 hours |
| P2 | Unclear wording, a missing view, a typo | Fix within 7 days |
Every change to the substance of a page is recorded in our public corrections log: the date, the page, what was wrong and what we changed.
Independence
7 Scrolls has no advertisers and no paid placements, and no organisation reviews our content before publication. More on who we are is on the about page.