I have never come across a material estimating the number of books produced in the history of mankind. In all of history how many books do you think people have written? May be billions? Trillions? I don’t know. But, we know some things about these books. First thing we know is that the vast majority of those books are not in circulation anymore. No body is reading them today. Another thing we know also is a lot of them are outdated. They make no sense today because people know better.
With that backdrop think about the bible and the mind boggling facts about the bible:
- The bible is a book that took more than 1,500 years to complete. The person who started writing the Bible and the person who finished writing it lived approximately 1,500 years apart.
- The bible is the oldest book in circulation today. Despite being more than 2,000 years old, it is read by billions of people around the world.
- It is on the Guinness book for two reasons: One it is because it is the best selling book of all time and two because it has been translated into more than 2,233 languages (no that was not a typing error. It is two thousand two hundred and thirty three)
- It is the most hated book. It has been banned, burned, dissected, criticized, vilified and what have you. But it is also the most loved book of all time.
Mind you, I haven’t even started preaching. I am just giving you basic facts about the Bible. In fact, I can go on and on with more facts about the bible. These facts speak volumes. Do you have this book? Do you read it? I hope so. If you read this book, you will find the following in Hebrew Chapter 4:
“…The word of God is living and active….”
That is why this book is endowed with such mind boggling statistical facts. It is a living book. Not only that but it is also active. Today, after all those years, it is busy changing lives, doing things.
Get this book, read it, believe it and live it.
The Cyber Evangelist |