Saturday, May 02, 2009

A Long Essay

Have you tried writing a long essay.. say about 20,000 words? I mean, I've written numerous articles, even rather long stories.. but coughing out 20,000 words on one topic just seemed so endless..


Ever wondered if you'll lose track of what you are trying to say.. with so many points.. and trying to keep yourself coherent.. and not contradicting yourself? I was at the point of imagining the words overflowing off the top of my head (where my brain is) and I had to fumble all over, trying to remember what I said in the beginning in the first place.




Suddenly I realised why I'm going through this.. so that I may learn to treasure the written Word of God even more..

My Lord God Almighty.. He inspired the Word of God through a compilation of 66 books altogether in a Bible. According to agards-bible-timeline.com, there are some 783,137 words in the King James Bible alone.


And you know what? The Word of God is not only coherent, it is also full of truth, grace, love and discipline. Awesome!


2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.









Here's some additional facts taken from http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q10_bible-facts.html

BIBLE STATISTICS:

Number of books in the Bible: 66

Chapters: 1,189

Verses: 31,101

Words: 783,137

Letters: 3,566,480

Number of promises given in the Bible: 1,260

Commands: 6,468

Fulfilled prophecy: 3,268 verses

Number of questions: 3,294

Longest name: Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)

Longest verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)

Shortest verse: John 11:35 (2 words: "Jesus wept").

Middle books: Micah and Nahum

Middle verse: Psalm 118:8

Middle chapter: Psalm 117

Shortest chapter: Psalm 117 (by number of words)

Longest chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)

Longest book: Psalms (150 chapters)

Shortest book (by number of words): 3 John

Number of times the word "God" appears: 3,358

Number of times the word "Lord" appears: 7,736




Romans 15:4
" For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,
so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."

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