Look, I'm Not a Bible Scholar

Let me just get that out there first. I don't have a theology degree. I don't go to church every Sunday. In fact, I don't go to church often at all. I'm not here to preach to you or tell you how to live your life.

I'm just a guy from an Irish Catholic family who went to Irish Catholic school my whole life. My parents raised me in the faith. I sat through Mass, memorized prayers, learned the stories. And somehow, despite all the years since then, I think it impacted me more than I realized.

I don't claim to know the Bible inside and out. Honestly? I don't know that much about it. But I know enough to see something that most people miss.

Things I Can't Explain

I've experienced things in my life that I can't explain. Things that have nothing to do with this project, but everything to do with why I believe the Lord has been there for me.

I can't prove it. I don't have a burning bush story or a dramatic conversion moment. But I've felt something—protection, guidance, grace—in ways that don't make logical sense. And I think that's part of what faith is. Not knowing everything, but knowing enough.

I try to live the way I think Christ would want me to live. Not perfectly. Not even close. But I try. And part of that is seeing this Book—not as rules and religion—but as something powerful.

Why I Built This

Here's the thing about the Bible that most people don't realize: it's not just a collection of random stories. It's interconnected. Every book, every chapter, every verse points to something else. Genesis echoes in Revelation. The Prophets foreshadow the Gospels. It's all woven together.

And I thought: What if people could see that? Not just read about it, but actually visualize how it all connects?

So I started coding. Not because I'm some expert. Not because I have all the answers. But because I wanted to show people what I was seeing. Maybe if they could see it too, they'd understand why this Book isn't just some relic from ancient history.

The Data Doesn't Lie

I found this dataset—the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. It's public domain, compiled by scholars over centuries. Over 340,000 cross-references mapping how verses connect to each other across the entire Bible.

And when you look at it—when you actually visualize it—you see the pattern. You see how Genesis chapter 3 connects to Romans chapter 5. How Isaiah's prophecies thread through the Gospels. How Revelation mirrors the Exodus.

It's not random. It's not coincidence. It's design.

And that's what this whole project is: making that design visible. Not to prove anything to anyone. Not to convert people or start arguments. Just to show what's there.

What This Taught Me

Building this changed how I see the Bible. I didn't expect that. I thought I was just making a cool visualization tool. But when you spend hundreds of hours in the text, following connections, seeing patterns... something shifts.

The Old Testament and New Testament aren't two separate books. They're one story. Every page in the NT is soaked in OT references. Over 60,000 cross-testament connections. That's not an accident.

The unity is undeniable. 66 books, written over 1,500 years by 40+ different authors, and it all fits together like a tapestry. You can see it in the data.

I'm Not Asking You to Believe Anything

You don't have to be religious to use this. You don't have to believe in God. You don't have to agree with anything I've said here.

All I'm asking is that you look. Look at the data. Look at the connections. See the pattern for yourself.

Maybe you'll see what I see. Maybe you won't. But at least you'll know it's there.

The Hotel Room Book

That Bible sitting in hotel nightstands? The one everyone jokes about but nobody reads? That book has 340,000+ internal cross-references. It maps itself. Every verse points to other verses. It's self-documenting, self-referential, interconnected across thousands of years.

And people just... ignore it. They dismiss it as old mythology or outdated rules.

But what if they could see it differently? What if instead of a dusty book, they saw a weapon? A tool? A map?

That's why I built this. Not to shove religion down anyone's throat. But to show them what they're missing when they write it off.

To My Irish Catholic Roots

My parents gave me something when they sent me to Catholic school. At the time, I didn't appreciate it. Mass felt long. The prayers felt repetitive. The stories felt... old.

But it planted something in me. A foundation. A framework. Even now, even without going to church every week, I think about Christ. I think about how He'd want me to live. I think about grace, forgiveness, sacrifice.

Maybe that Irish Catholic upbringing is why I see the Bible differently. Not as a rulebook. Not as ancient history. But as something living.

So this is, in a way, my thanks to them. To my parents. To the nuns and priests who taught me. To the tradition that shaped me, even when I didn't realize it was happening.

Why "Get Proselytized"?

The name is a little cheeky, I know. But it's honest.

I want you to get proselytized by the data. Not by me. Not by religion. By the connections themselves. By seeing how it all fits together in ways you can't unsee.

Call it what you want—design, coincidence, divine inspiration. All I know is it's there. And once you see it, you can't ignore it.

A Note to You

I don't know who you are or why you're reading this. Maybe you stumbled here by accident. Maybe you're curious. Maybe you're skeptical. That's okay.

I'm not here to convince you of anything. I'm not trying to convert you. I'm just showing you what I found when I looked closer at that "stupid old silly book" everyone dismisses.

If you see it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But at least now you know someone looked at the data and saw something worth sharing.

Thanks for reading. Now go see for yourself.

— Ringmast4r
Just a guy who saw a pattern and wanted to share it.