Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A Truly Unique Book


 

There is no other book like it – both in its printing and the influence it has had on mankind down through the centuries..

Back in 1975 according to the Guinness Book of World Records some 2,500,000,000 copies of it had been printed and published world-wide just between 1815 and 1975. By now the number of copies must be soaring well over the three billion mark.


 

Since The Apostle John wrote its last book during the latter part of the First Century B.C.E., although it has had many enemies from secular as well as religious leaders who have sought to destroy or discredit it, it has still had a powerful influence on human thinking and laws like no other publication in the Western and many other parts of the world. The Germany poet Heinrich Heine, for instance, said that he owed his enlightenment to it. Anti-slavery activist, William Seward claimed that human progress depended on people following its advice, and the British jurist Sir William Blackstone said that no law of man should ever contradict it. This book of course is the Bible.

And all of this still holds true today. It is still the most widely distributed Book in the world and its advice is just as valid today as it was back in 98 B.C.E. when John wrote its last chapter.

It is a manual for successful daily living – preserved down through the ages since Moses started writing it down to the present day.

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