stand on the word...

According to the Guinness Book of Records The Bible is still the best selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.

Maybe that is what inspired Joseph Ernst and Jan Van Bruggen of Sideline Collective to reorganise the entire King James Bible in alphabetical order. All 1364 pages of it!!!!

It is part of their project to convert seminal books into something objective, quantifiable, and analytical. Allowing us to see which words are used most often.

To make Bible The, they created some custom software. They then took the entire text of the bible and reorganised it alphabetically from a-z.

That allowed them to highlight the importance people tend to place on the order of said words – and their meaning – and allows for new and interesting interpretations of the written word, in much the same way as an abstract painting might.

BIBLE THE: Data suggests that The Bible skews towards a positive bias. For example, ‘Good’ is used 720 times, ‘bad’ only 18. ‘Love’ is used 308 times and ‘hate’ 87 times. And ‘happy’ less so, at 28 times, but still over twice as much as the 11 uses of ‘sad’.

‘Right’ features 358 times, ‘wrong’ just 26. ‘Light’ features 272 times, ‘dark’ only 43. ‘Pleasure’ 61 times, ‘pain’ 25. And ‘Life’ 451 times, still more than the 371 instances of ‘death’.

This positive trait also translates into Biblical subject matter. For example, ‘Heaven’ features 582 times, whereas ‘hell’ only 54. There are 94 ‘angels’ to 55 ‘devils’, 96 ‘saints’ to 48 ‘sinners’, and 302 ‘blessed’ to a mere 3 ‘damned’, and a total of 27 ‘miracles’. 

You can never have too many angels.

It will come as no surprise, that gender wise, the data suggests that The Bible is overwhelmingly biased towards males. At it’s most extreme, The Bible has 8,472 instances of the word ‘his’ and only a mere 3 instances of ‘hers’. There are 1,653 references to ‘men’ and only 181 to ‘women’. ‘He’ is used 10,404 times, ‘she’ only 982.

Should you be inclined to find out more, you can download it as an ebook for a £10 from here - https://sidelinecollective.com/biblethe-versions

Or if money is no object you could buy the leather bound and signed limited edtion for a mere £2000https://sidelinecollective.com/products/biblethe

I couldn’t talk about standing on the word of God without finishing with one of my most favourite songs. This might even be in my all time top ten (which as Queen Michelle will attest to, usually comprises of a lot more than 10 songs) Tee Hee…

Big Love and Blessings
Queen Marie

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