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If you put this in your computer, a LOT of useful information can be immediately available inside your computer without having to get onto the Web.
The original downloadable program was created between 1992 and 1995, as a DOS-based, floppy-diskette based Christian information source. Such diskettes were handed out to inquisitive Christians and Seekers.
Once we realized the scope of the InterNet, we created a web-site for BELIEVE early in 1997. Within two months, more people had downloaded the BELIEVE program than ALL of the hundreds of floppy diskettes that had been given out over the previous five years!
Since that time, we have exclusively concentrated on working on the web-site presentations. This means that the web-site now has better-formatted presentations that always display perfectly, and where many individual pages have been added or expanded. We expect this to always continue, so the web-site presentations will hopefully always get better and more useful. In this sense, the OLD downloadable version is somewhat obsolete! That's why we have created the NEW downloadable version, which has the most recent and complete pages from our web-site. The most recent version (Dec 2007) of the file is significantly larger than the older versions, currently being about 12.7 Megabytes. Everything is compressed in it, and before the installation, you will need to make sure that you have at least around 70 Megabytes of space on your hard drive.
The first two links download the exact same NEW version! It is an EXE self-expanding file. Some business computer systems do not allow downloading EXE files, so you may need to download this on your home computer. Some modern systems won't even try to download an EXE file because that's one type of file that computer viruses are sometimes in. If you find this to be the case, we have also provided the second link, the exact same file, but we have changed the extension to EXF and most systems will accept that fine! (If you do that, you would have to know how to find and then re-name the file back to the EXE extension once it is in your computer, and then double-click on it to start the expansion process. The (2007) file downloads at around 12.7 megabytes but expands to take up around 34 megabytes of file space in your computer, so make sure there is enough room for it. It briefly takes up around twice that much space during installation. (This file does NOT include the 4,000 Early Christian Manuscript texts, which are even larger!)
We provide a third link that is the same files as a ZIP file, which is likely to download into a receiving directory of your computer, which might cause you to then have to move the entire created BELIEVE file set to a desired location in your computer. (the EXE file does that automatically.)
If you happen to have a Macintosh or UNIX computer platform, it might be necessary for you to transfer the belweb.exe file to a Windows computer to expand its contents, and then to transfer all of the files and directories back to your computer, where it should work fine!
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb05.exe 8600 kb) (Aug 2005)
At any time later, either double-click on the index.html file or use your browser to access that file, and the BELIEVE Program should start.
If you have ANY difficulty downloading it or later starting/running it, we would appreciate your letting us know. There are SO MANY different kinds of computers and browsers out there, there might be some incompatibilities. With your help, we can figure them out and provide for them.
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( http://mb-soft.com/believe/index.html )