Dear Friends, as I mentioned in the Intro, we have plans here in India to distribute 15 Crore Bibles in the next 10-12 Years. We've done the Math and Estimate One Single Person can distribute about 1000-1500 Bibles in a Single Year, and therefore 10000-15000 Bibles in 10 Years. Now, if we need to reach 15 Crore, or 150 Million as westerners say it, we therefore need 10,000 laborers in the Lord's Vineyard. Currently, we have only about 100, but we are growing fast, and aim to reach our target soon. We aim to give out New Testament Bibles first, and then Complete Bibles later on if requested.
1. So, my First Question is: Does anyone know a place from which I can order New Testaments, to be delivered to India, at a Reasonable Price, preferably with a Discount for Bulk Orders? I love both the King James Version, and the New King James Version Blue New Testament Gideon Bibles, both of which I have in my home, though only a few copies. I also read the Catholic Douay Rheims Version, first published in 1583, even before the Anglican 1611 King James Bible. I have this Bible on my Smart Phone in my "IPieta App", which we can also download others on their phone. If we collect people's phones and email ids, we can also email them Bible Links. But we prefer to distribute hard copies of the Bible, as people are much more likely to read them. In any case, we can do all three as well, and it doesn't have to be one or the other.
2. My Second Question is: What do you think of a project to obtain a New Ecumenical or Universal Bible Translation all Christians can use? Ideally, Bishops, Pastors, Priests, Scripture Scholars and Christian Theologians, and others skilled in Hebrew, Greek and Latin - the languages on the Cross and of the Most Ancient Bible Manuscripts - would lead such an effort, though it would take time. I would like Bible translations to be as faithful to the original text as possible, while also retaining the Majesty and Authority of some of the Old Bible Translations like the KJV.
In addition, imho, the Holy Bible should be as approachable and reader-friendly as possible, so that Christ the Lord, the Living Word of God, can speak to the reader through them, as imho He greatly desires to do. Archaic words that have changed or lost their meaning, or are completely unintelligible to 90% of readers today, most of whom are simple Christians, should be completely avoided. Otherwise, people may not read the Bible.
The Holy Bible is already the Greatest and Most Best-Selling Book of all time, leaving far behind the Quran, the Book of Mormon and even other religious texts: "The Guinness Book of World Records estimates that more than 5 billion copies of the Bible have been printed. Other religious texts are also high on the list: the Quran with 800 million copies, the Book of Mormon with 120 million." https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/21/thread-books-bcst-best-selling-books Harry Potter is nothing at all compared to the Holy Bible, with a mere 500 Million copies sold, which the Holy Bible beats ten times over. Let's aim for the Holy Bible to reach 50 Billion.
In Our Lord Jesus,
With Love and Prayers,
May God bless you all.
Nishant Xavier.
1. So, my First Question is: Does anyone know a place from which I can order New Testaments, to be delivered to India, at a Reasonable Price, preferably with a Discount for Bulk Orders? I love both the King James Version, and the New King James Version Blue New Testament Gideon Bibles, both of which I have in my home, though only a few copies. I also read the Catholic Douay Rheims Version, first published in 1583, even before the Anglican 1611 King James Bible. I have this Bible on my Smart Phone in my "IPieta App", which we can also download others on their phone. If we collect people's phones and email ids, we can also email them Bible Links. But we prefer to distribute hard copies of the Bible, as people are much more likely to read them. In any case, we can do all three as well, and it doesn't have to be one or the other.
2. My Second Question is: What do you think of a project to obtain a New Ecumenical or Universal Bible Translation all Christians can use? Ideally, Bishops, Pastors, Priests, Scripture Scholars and Christian Theologians, and others skilled in Hebrew, Greek and Latin - the languages on the Cross and of the Most Ancient Bible Manuscripts - would lead such an effort, though it would take time. I would like Bible translations to be as faithful to the original text as possible, while also retaining the Majesty and Authority of some of the Old Bible Translations like the KJV.
In addition, imho, the Holy Bible should be as approachable and reader-friendly as possible, so that Christ the Lord, the Living Word of God, can speak to the reader through them, as imho He greatly desires to do. Archaic words that have changed or lost their meaning, or are completely unintelligible to 90% of readers today, most of whom are simple Christians, should be completely avoided. Otherwise, people may not read the Bible.
The Holy Bible is already the Greatest and Most Best-Selling Book of all time, leaving far behind the Quran, the Book of Mormon and even other religious texts: "The Guinness Book of World Records estimates that more than 5 billion copies of the Bible have been printed. Other religious texts are also high on the list: the Quran with 800 million copies, the Book of Mormon with 120 million." https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/21/thread-books-bcst-best-selling-books Harry Potter is nothing at all compared to the Holy Bible, with a mere 500 Million copies sold, which the Holy Bible beats ten times over. Let's aim for the Holy Bible to reach 50 Billion.
In Our Lord Jesus,
With Love and Prayers,
May God bless you all.
Nishant Xavier.
Still, most Christian churches would have multiple Bibles in order to supply their congregants during services, and possibly even multiple copies of different translations as times change and congregations grow. Of course we hear the stories of churches shrinking, but my church is growing, and they switched translations at one point when the translation they were originally using was updated, and the older one became difficult to come by. So rather than not having enough of the preferred version, they went with a completely different translation.
