For many in our day, to picture the Bible is to think of an old dusty book on the shelf with leather binding and golden accents. Its pages are so thin you’re afraid you’ll destroy them at every turn, or perhaps you believe the words on its pages will destroy you. I have taken the words from those pages and linked them with explanatory works in order to show you the Bible in a way that you’ve never seen it before.
Scripture contains stories about thousands of people over thousands of years in thousands of places. We can take those thousands of words and make them into a picture. The root word from which we translate the term “Scripture” is graphe. This same root word is also the basis for our English word “graph.” How appropriate is it then to to translate the words of scripture into graphs as we use that word today?
Christians of the renaissance “visualized” the Bible with works of art that are now considered priceless. Now we can replace the oil and canvas with data and computers. I would contend that this approach is no less beautiful or creative. Now that the foundation has been laid, in the coming months on this blog I will bring forth the realization of this vision. Never before seen patterns may emerge. Beautiful structures may unfold. Readers will see the consistency of design in God’s words and works through time, space, and the soul of mankind. This is truly an exciting time.
