Hello everyone. I am pleased to have with me today Dr. Michelle Mangolvati born in 1949. Dr. Mangolvati is founder president of the book

of the Millennium International Slash Revelation Movement. He's an Indian philosopher and social

reformer born and raised in India. Michelle studied philosophy at the University of Alehabad, 1967 to 1969 and indoor 1971 to 1973 in Hindu

Auschwems and at the Lebrie Fellowship in Switzerland in 1976, along with his wife Ruth, he founded a community to serve the rural

poor in India. Michelle continued his direct involvement in community transformation until 1997, including service at the headquarters of two national political parties.

There he worked toward the empowerment and liberation of Indian peasants and the lower castes. In 1977, ages then largest publisher, Vcast Publishing House, published his first book, The World of Guru's.

His next two books, When the New Age Gets Old, IVP 1992 and India, The Grand Experiment, HIPAA Ran 1997, brought his work to the attention of American and European readers.

At the turn of the millennium, Michelle and his wife Ruth were invited to the US to make a television series exploring the Bible's role in creating the modern world.

Their research, prepared in the process of making a documentary film, has been presented in text form and on a variety of electronic and social media platforms.

He's lectured in more than 40 countries and published 17 books, served as the honorary professor of applied theology in the Gospel and Plow Faculty of Theology, the Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences in El-Helibad, India since 2013.

I recently read two of his newer books, The Book that Made Your World and Thomas Nelson 2011, and in what is some ways our companion volume and an extension, this book changed everything, sought after press media, 2019.

It was very interesting to me to encounter the views of a non-Western or non-Westerner on the biblical corpus and its effects on civilization.

I was also extremely impressed and happy to have had the opportunity to read books that were so deeply researched and widely ranging.

I learned all sorts of things about Western history and certainly a lot about Indian history, things I had no idea about, so ignorant when it comes to history that it's embarrassing.

So it was a pleasure to encounter these books and to get some sense of the depth and breadth of scholarship that went into their production.

I thought we could have a pretty interesting conversation on the...

Well, on the history of India, on the role the Bible played in shaping India as a modern country, on your views of the Bible and the West, all of that, so welcome to my discussion.

Thank you, sir. I'm on it.

Well, it's a pleasure to have you here.

So, can you maybe start by telling everyone how you came across the Bible and why you've made it in some ways, I would say the centerpiece of your life, it's study.

Yes, while I was studying philosophy in Allahabad University, I couldn't have any childish faith because my professors did not believe the Bible or Hindu scriptures.

So, I had become a Christian as a teenager because I was going through a moral struggle, I was addicted to shoplifting and lying and I hated myself for this habit of lying when there was nothing to be gained from lying.

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