The Bible is the most interesting book ever written on earth. It is the most read, popular, causes the most comments and controversy, and also contains unique secrets of modern science.
According to American President Theodore Roosevelt, civic and social activities are closely intertwined with the Bible, and human life will lose its foundation if the Holy Scriptures are removed from it.
For some people, it is simply a collection of literary, religious stories needed for study by philosophers. But they will quickly change their minds, delving into God's hidden secrets.
About the Bible:
- How does the Old Testament differ from the New?
- Epistle to the Galatians by the Apostle Paul
- Gospel of John, chapter 15
Bible, Holy Scripture
What makes the Bible unique?
1. The most printed book.
Despite this, in some countries of the world there is a ban on reading the Bible, every second one copy of the printed Holy Scripture appears somewhere, this number includes the publishing of the New Testament, as part of the Holy Book.
2. The largest number of translations have been made based on the Bible.
The scrolls found were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. In the 21st century, Holy Scripture is read in more than 3,223 languages and dialects around the world.
3. This is a modern bestseller, whose popularity is growing every year. People read the same Book of Books, regardless of their position in society and skin color, age and gender, physics and poetry. This message of God needs no advertising.
The rarest book is the Gutenberg Bible
4. The Bible means a library, which includes 66 books, 37 messages of the Old Testament and 29 of the New.
5. Under the guidance of the Creator, the Holy Epistle was written by forty authors, among whom are kings like David and Solomon, the shepherd Amos, the doctor Luke, the fisherman Peter, the great and small prophets Moses, Daniel, Malachi, Hosea and many others.
The worldview of all authors was united by Divine unity, despite the differences:
- national;
- age;
- cultural;
- social.
6. The oldest Bible is also the most expensive book, for which more than half a million dollars were paid. For this price, the Codex Sinaiticus was sold in 1923 by the authorities of the country of the Soviets of England in order to purchase food.
7. There is no more persecuted printed message in the world than the Holy Scriptures, both before and now. Many people gave their lives for the right to read the Holy Message.
It is not surprising that people were punished for distributing Christian scrolls:
- Romans;
- French revolutionaries ordered all Bibles to be burned in 1793;
- The Germans, and then the authorities of the USSR, threw people into hard labor for storing Holy Scripture.
It is scary to realize that in 1244 the early Church elevated the Book of Books to the rank of inviolable for secular people, and then for ordinary priests.
Catholic priests burned Bibles to prevent people from reading them from discovering the truth about God's power and mercy.
Catholic priests burned Bibles to prevent people from reading God's Word
8. The Bible is a book of prophecies, and 3000 of them have already come true, this is a small list that concerns:
- countries such as Rome, Türkiye, Greece, USA;
- cities including Jerusalem, Damascus and Thebes;
- personalities in the person of Alexander the Great, kings Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar;
- religions of Egypt, Babylon, Canaanites.
All the great catastrophes occurring in the modern world have already been described in God's message.
Attention! To read prophecies you do not need to be a fortuneteller, clairvoyant or psychic. It is enough to carefully read the text and compare it with current events.
The prophet Jeremiah wrote about the destruction of Babylon (Jeremiah 51:37), the fall of Nineveh was predicted by Nahum (Nahum 1:8), and the evangelist Matthew spoke about the war between nations (Matthew 24:7).
9. The Vatican Museum houses the oldest Bible, written in 350.
10. The first Holy Epistles were written in one text, chapters and verses in the scriptures appeared thanks to Bishop Stephen Langton. This happened in 1214.
The current division system was first printed in 1560 in English.
You can read the entire Bible in 48 hours
11. Thieves all over the world steal the Holy Scriptures most of all.
12. God said “Rejoice” and “Do not be afraid” 365 times in his messages. For every day of the year, Christians have the promise of the Creator that He is always there, you just need to be able to trust Him with your life, and then you can rejoice.
13. There is no book in the world on the events of which more comments have been written than the Holy Epistle.
14. You will spend 37 hours reading the Old Testament, and in just 11 hours you can read the New Testament.
15. The English edition of the Holy Scriptures in 631 was almost completely destroyed due to a gross error; in the 10 commandments they “lost” a piece of “not” and issued “Commit adultery!” Unique copies of this publication can only be found in private collections.
Interesting about Orthodoxy:
- Holy places and sources of Russia
- Orthodox Church about the art of dance
- What is purgatory and does it exist in Orthodoxy?
The tiniest specimen measures 4.76 mm
If you've ever tried to fit your Bible into an already overfilled bag, you know how difficult it can be. To solve this problem, Jerusalem Nano has developed a tiny chip containing all 27 books of the New Testament, written in the original Greek.
Each printed letter is about 0.18 microns, or 18 millionths of a meter, wide, so you'll need a pretty powerful microscope if you want to read. The overall size of this square “book” is 4.76 mm on each side .
Made from a silicon wafer, the chip is designed to be embedded in jewelry and watches so consumers can carry the sacred text wherever they go.
“Our goal is to be able to mass produce it so that there is a Bible in almost every pocket. Because this smallest Bible in the world can be used in the jewelry industry,” says David Almog of Jerusalem Nano Bible Company.
This is interesting - facts from the Bible
The oldest person, who lived 969 years, is Methuselah (Genesis 5:21-27), who was the son of Enoch. Enoch is one of the few righteous people taken to heaven alive. Enoch left the house and disappeared (Gen. 5:24).
For his betrayal, Judas received an amount equal to a worker’s salary for 4 months. The price of betrayal is always low, as is the action.
The strongest biblical hero is Samson.
The wisest man on earth since the creation of the world remains King Solomon, who, thanks to his wisdom, built the richest kingdom.
Solomon with a plan of the Temple, illustration in the Bible 1896
The faithful and obedient warrior Gideon defeated 135 thousand Midianites. (Judges 7:16-21)
A man after God's own heart, King David, being a shepherd boy, killed the tallest biblical character with one stone - Goliath, whose height was 3 meters (1 Samuel 17:8-21).
The age of the earth may be millions of years old, but the global flood that destroyed the earth, people, flora and fauna was about 5,000 years ago.
A unique fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
It is believed that there are more than 1,000 prophecies in the Holy Scriptures: about 800 in the Old Testament and more than 200 in the New. But you need to focus not on the number of prophecies, but on the accuracy of their fulfillment. For example, there are 332 Old Testament prophecies that were fulfilled at the First Coming of Christ. And these are not vague predictions, but a clear and precise fulfillment of certain prophetic events, which we will consider in the following topics.
The successes of the Bible look fantastic compared to the background of even the most successful modern seers and soothsayers. The unconditional prophecies of the Bible come true 100%, and with all the described details.
98% of biblical prophecies of the past and present have come true, only the prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ remain.
It is estimated that the Holy Scriptures contain many fulfilled prophecies concerning ancient and modern states: Babylon, Rome, Greece, Assyria, Turkey, Egypt, the USA. In particular, such famous cities as Damascus, Jerusalem, Tire and Sidon. As well as individuals: Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Nebuchadnezzar. The exact fulfillment of Bible prophecy confirms a very important point for us: God is unchanging and sticks to His Word. If He fulfilled everything regarding the past, then can we doubt His words regarding the future Second Coming? No – He is true to His words!
For atheists and doubters
Nothing in the Bible goes against science. If you really wish, you can find answers to all the questions underlying modern discoveries in the holy book.
The science of genetics began to develop in the last century, studying chromosomes, refuting the theory of evolution, which asserted the possibility of degeneration from species to species, monkeys into humans, as a final result.
Genesis 1 tells us that God created several types of plants and animals.
Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity in the 18th century, and Job wrote that the earth hangs “on nothing.” (Job 26:7).
The Italian Torricelli proved in the 17th century that air can be weighed, but Job also claimed the same thing (Job 28:25).
For a long time, people thought that the earth was flat and supported by three pillars, and the prophet Isaiah argued that the Creator reigns over the “circle of the earth” (Is. 40:22).
One of the most important manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew
A typo that changes everything
Everyone knows that the Bible, to put it mildly, does not approve of adultery, but once it was the other way around. In 1631, one publisher published the Bible with a typo: the negation “not” was omitted, so it turned out “commit adultery .
Only 9 of these Bibles exist today, known as the "Sinner's Bible." It is not surprising that this edition is in great demand among collectors, so you will have to pay a tidy sum for such a copy.
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VULGATE
According to Wikipedia
Let's go back in time a few hundred years ago, around the year 382. Pope Damasus asked biblical scholar Jerome to revise previous Latin translations of the Gospels. Jerome went further and provided a Latin translation of almost the entire Bible (with the help of some unknown authors).
The Vulgate became the official biblical text of the Catholic Church for the next thousand years or so. Latin was the common language of the people at the time the translation was made, but few common people were literate. Thus, access to the Vulgate was largely limited to the Catholic clergy. The first English translation of the Bible (below) was based on the Vulgate.
