Psalm 33:4-5
For the word of the Lord is right,
And all His work is done in truth.
He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
For the word of the Lord is right,
He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
The world goodness comes not from the crowd-world but from the narrow road of self-determined bible reading. In 315 AD Athenasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, identified the 27 books of the New Testament recognized as the canon of scripture. WhIle atheists and secularists bash the bible, meditate upon how the tidal force of those biblical combined writings have advanced print & publishing technology, and the global rise of literacy.
ReplyDeleteIt took thousand years for the evolved Italian, German, and French Christian Ethnics to advanced text reproduction, reducing the world illiteracy rate, giving rise to the technology explosion and demand for INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM. From then to about 1450 AD bibles were all Monastic-hand-made paper, ink, and calligraphy. In modern terms, maybe at a cost of a half million dollars per, and maybe 5% could even read!
It took 1700 years for Public Print to get from ancient government notices scribed into stone, into notices, into pamphlets, into a bible book, into newsprint. Gutenberg invented the printing press, and printed the first book, THE BIBLE, in 1450’s. A hundred years later, in 1556, came the first monthly newspaper out of Venice Italy! Fifty years later in 1605 came the German pamphlet, “Relation”. French followed in 1631! The first US paper came in 1690.
From 1730 to 1890, the illiteracy rate in France dropped from 70% to 5%, in eighteen generations. The first domino to fall? The 315 AD NEW TESTAMENT expanding the Spirit of God. @larrygrowe
Larry, I can always count on you. Your comment is so interesting. I am all for expanding the spirit of God. Thanks for your contribution to that.
ReplyDeleteBless you, @humekim