Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet (4 of 5)
Series: Life By the Book: A Study of Psalm 119
Scott Maze
Psalm 119:97-98
The Bible is so available; it’s as close as reaching out our hand. The Bible is on our phones and our nightstands in hotels all across our nation. The Bible is handed down from generation to generation. Around eighty million Bibles are printed every year and it is thought that there are between five and seven billion copies of the Bible printed in the last 1,500 years. The Guinness Book of World Records tells us that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, and it is the best-selling book each and every year. The very book that commands you, ‘‘Thou Shall Not Steal,’’ is the world’s ‘‘most stolen’’ book, as copies of it disappear from hotels and hospitals every year.
Banning the Bible
The Bible is the most banned book of all time. You can guess that dictators such as Stalin sought to ban the Bible. But the Bible was the most challenged book in school libraries and public libraries around the nation according to the American Library Association in 2015. The Keller ISD recently returned the Bible to circulation in its libraries after it was flagged for removal last year. The Bible has been challenged as objectionable reading for students and schools since I was in college. And it’s not just us Americans that flag the Bible. When the wind is right, South Koreans launch ‘‘Bible Balloons’’ into North Korea, where the Bible is banned. An American pastor Eric Foley fills forty-foot balloons filled with hydrogen, and they are chocked full of Bibles on SD cards, flash drives, and photos of the Bible’s pages. With GPS technology, he can direct the balloons to go into rural areas. But the North Korean regime will shoot down the balloons if they are spotted. ‘‘The Bible has been criticized, challenged, and banned by individuals, groups, and governments through centuries of persecution.’’ What other book has this kind of reaction?
The Bibl ...
Series: Life By the Book: A Study of Psalm 119
Scott Maze
Psalm 119:97-98
The Bible is so available; it’s as close as reaching out our hand. The Bible is on our phones and our nightstands in hotels all across our nation. The Bible is handed down from generation to generation. Around eighty million Bibles are printed every year and it is thought that there are between five and seven billion copies of the Bible printed in the last 1,500 years. The Guinness Book of World Records tells us that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, and it is the best-selling book each and every year. The very book that commands you, ‘‘Thou Shall Not Steal,’’ is the world’s ‘‘most stolen’’ book, as copies of it disappear from hotels and hospitals every year.
Banning the Bible
The Bible is the most banned book of all time. You can guess that dictators such as Stalin sought to ban the Bible. But the Bible was the most challenged book in school libraries and public libraries around the nation according to the American Library Association in 2015. The Keller ISD recently returned the Bible to circulation in its libraries after it was flagged for removal last year. The Bible has been challenged as objectionable reading for students and schools since I was in college. And it’s not just us Americans that flag the Bible. When the wind is right, South Koreans launch ‘‘Bible Balloons’’ into North Korea, where the Bible is banned. An American pastor Eric Foley fills forty-foot balloons filled with hydrogen, and they are chocked full of Bibles on SD cards, flash drives, and photos of the Bible’s pages. With GPS technology, he can direct the balloons to go into rural areas. But the North Korean regime will shoot down the balloons if they are spotted. ‘‘The Bible has been criticized, challenged, and banned by individuals, groups, and governments through centuries of persecution.’’ What other book has this kind of reaction?
The Bibl ...
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