Is $75 Too Much for a Bible?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 12 September 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Pastor John shares six reasons why expensive Bibles like the Bibliotheca Bible will not become the norm despite their elegance.

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0:00.0	Happy Friday, everyone.
0:07.3	A podcast listener named Matt was one of several listeners who emailed us to ask us about
0:12.0	a new Bible that's trending online.
0:14.9	Matt asks, Pastor John, what are your thoughts about the new four-volume Bibliotheca Bible
0:19.4	which costs $75?
0:21.5	Do we need aesthetically and artistically pleasing Bibles?
0:25.2	What are the benefits and what are the drawbacks?
0:29.0	I think the most important thing for me to say is that I love the Bible.
0:34.2	Under God it is the most precious possession that we have in the world, yes, even more
0:40.7	precious than other people.
0:43.8	And therefore I support its distribution everywhere and by every means that preserves its
0:52.6	accurate meaning and does not sin in the construction or the distribution of it.
0:59.4	That's my overarching passion.
1:02.2	Yes, get the Bible into as many hands in this world as possible in a faithful translation
1:09.5	in as many forms that will be helpful to people and not undermine the meaning or the truth
1:16.1	of the Bible.
1:17.3	Now this project, Bibliotheca Bible, is a project to put the Bible into four volumes with
1:25.2	no verse or chapter, numbers on beautiful paper and beautiful bindings with the ASV,
1:33.2	American Standard Version Translation, which was published in 1901 and is characterized,
1:38.9	everybody knows, by a very formal literalism, I say literalism because it is pretty
1:47.3	wooden.
1:48.3	It is going to have the these and those taken out with the corresponding verbs updated.
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