We have entered into an age in which many people are leaving behind their printed Bibles in favor of digital equivalents. On one level that’s of no great concern. After all, people are not leaving behind the Bible altogether, but merely exchanging one medium for another. If Paul could say, “Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice,” surely we can say, “only that in every way, whether through paper or pixels, the Bible is being read, in that we rejoice.”
But if on one level it’s of no great concern that people are migrating from printed Bibles to their iPads or iPhones, on another it does bear some consideration. That’s because it is true of any new technology that it introduces both benefits and drawbacks, that it brings about both positive consequences and negative. While nuclear fission gave us electricity, it also gave us Chernobyl. While the printing press gave us the Puritans, it also gave us Playboy. And while there are many wonderful features that come with our digital Bibles, there is this downside (among others): Our Bibles can no longer serve as a visible
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