How Has The Bible Contributed To The World Essay

What was the Bible Contributed to World? When I see the word, “Bible”, the first thing comes into my mind is Christians. Christianity is the largest religions group in the world, with an estimated 2.2 billion adherents. How the Bible can influence those people? I think one of the reasons is the Bible is valuable, since it contributed to the whole world. Likewise, the Bible is an influential book and affecting the society. There are 3 main ways that the Bible contributed: art, civilization, and morality. The Bible is one the best-selling book in the world and it has been translated to many languages. The Bible is not only for the Christians, people those like me, not a Christian had also read it before. Not only this, there were many artists have been inspired by the Bible. For example, the painting “Crucifixion with Mary and John”, was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti who is an Italian artist, but not a Christian. The painting shows that there are 2 people, stood by Jesus Christ, but Jesus has been crucified already. Also, the painting is same as the
Crucifixion is a painful and slow death in the Roman world and only slaves and the worst offenders can be executed in this way. However, the crucifixion was never used frivolously and using the crucifixion shows that how treasured a human life is to God. So, the Bible has never supported the death penalty and it brought an ending to the slavery and a beginning of equality. The slavery is just a temporary situation in the world and many slaves eventually have their freedom and civil rights. According to the Bible, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”. (Galatians 3:28) Therefore, the Bible and God have never condoned the slavery; in fact, the Bible teaches us what equality