Over 40 years ago I first saw the epic movie “Ten Commandments” in Malaysia, a Muslim country. The parting of the Red Sea was then touted to be a great movie graphic achievement. I vividly remember the Bible being created from the rocks through the fiery lightening strikes resulting in the formation of the tablets of stone. This was then shattered into pieces when Moses smashed it in anger and disappointment at the sight of the Israelites worshipping the idols. The word Biblos, literally The Book is another name for the Bible and it conjures up a thick printed King James Version of the English Bible. How the book technology has evolved from tablets and scrolls to something that is no longer physically visible. (see www.biblos.com).
In India where I originally come from, the pastor and the more spiritual congregation looked at me with dismay when I did not carry my Bible to church – I was almost a pagan. Now I carry the invisible Bible in my pocket in the form of my Phone Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The Bible has now become an e-book like thousands of other books available online to download or read, many of them available for free or for a fraction of the cost of the bulky, guaranteed-to-fade or dust-collecting printed hard copies. The power of eBooks is unbeatable. You can read on screen, search, bookmark, cut and paste content, highlight and flip pages without having to lick your thumb or curling the paper edges. You can buy ebook readers and by the way Moses’ tablet is back in vogue after thousands of years! You can read your e-Bible on a Tablet PC! I am all for e-books and e-Bibles. At http://www.gutenberg.org/ over 3 million eBooks are downloaded each month. How do you find this technology? Will you buy, download or read an e-Bible?
God is a spirit and is invisible. And now his Word has also become the Invisible Bible. It is so small you can save it on your USB flash drive, your PDA or your PC. I don’t worry anymore if my pastor looks at me disappointingly for not carrying the black book or for playing with my PDA in church. I am actually into the invisible Bible and I can truly touch and feel the invisible Creator!
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