A Book Like No Other
The Bible remains the world’s most popular book, and it’s easy to see why. First, it’s highly relatable. It features true-life accounts of real people, their relationships with one another, and their connection with God. These narratives teach practical lessons using simple, straightforward language. Because of this, they can be translated into hundreds of languages and understood by people in any place or era. Furthermore, the Bible’s core principles always work.
A Message From the Creator
Most importantly, the Bible is more than just a book about God—it’s a book from God. It reveals His name, His personality, and His unchanging purpose for creating the earth and humanity. It also charts the historic conflict between good and evil… a fascinating, universal drama that ultimately ends in triumph. Reading it with an open mind builds a genuine foundation for faith and hope.
Answers to Life’s Big Questions
Within its pages, we find vital information available nowhere else. For instance, the Bible reveals the truth regarding topics such as….
- Where we come from and why we suffer
- God’s arrangement to redeem humankind
- What Jesus has done for us
- The future of the earth and humans
FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE
- Theme: How God’s heavenly Kingdom will restore righteousness and peace to the earth
- Contents: 39 books in Hebrew (with a few passages in Aramaic) plus 27 in Greek
- Written: By some 40 writers over about 1,600 years, from 1513 B.C.E. to about 98 C.E.
- Languages: Now translated in whole or in part into more than 2,500
- It is estimated: that more than 4.7 billion Bibles (in whole or in part) have been printed. That is more than five times the number of copies of the next most widely distributed publication, Quotations From Chairman Mao.
- More than 50 million copies: of the Bible or portions of it were distributed recently in one year alone. “The Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year,” says a report in The New Yorker magazine.
- In whole or in part: the Bible has been translated into more than 2,400 languages. At least some of the Bible is available in the languages spoken by over 90 percent of the human family.
- About half the Bible writers: finished their writings before the birth of both Confucius, the renowned Chinese sage, and Siddhārtha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism.
- The Bible has had a profound influence: on the arts, including some of the world’s greatest paintings, music, and literature.
- The Bible has endured: bans by governments, burnings by religious opposers, and attacks by critics. No other book in history has faced greater opposition—and survived.
