Today I learned that they have an on-line store and they sell a certain book that I strongly oppose. Can you see it just peaking out from behind the other books here? And so, because they sell this book (here), which is so entirely inconsistent with the Bible, while their website is supposed to be totally about the Bible, I am wondering if I want to use this resource or link to it anymore. Not that it will matter to them one bit. It's just the principle of the thing. I can't promote a website that sells this book.
According to their blog, the biblegateway store opened on Oct. 8, which is around the same day I noticed the format looked different somehow. But that's not the only thing. I noticed something else. It's the advertising.
For example, I clicked on Key Word Search to find verses about the new heaven and new earth. So I typed in these words in the search box:
new earth
Some advertising for a book came up. I wouldn't have believed it unless I had seen it. Okay, let me tell you which book and what kind of google advertising came up...
A New EarthHmmm. All this on Bible Gateway. Okay, so they're just automatic google ads. But I don't remember seeing that kind of thing there before - mind you, there's a lot of things I don't remember. Nevertheless, it's there now.
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Just to put my mind at ease, I think I'll mosy on over to blueletterbible.org for reference from now on. They don't sell "that book", and 20% of their profits go to evangelism and the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. Looks like a good thing to link to.
4 comments:
Looks like they have succumbed to Christian popular literature!
Oh dear.
Like just about every other Christian business, I suppose.
Carla,
Keep up the good work. You are a true watchman. Worldly marketing techniques have captured the institutional church, you see it everywhere, and even in some of the more "respected" institutions. It has just become common, and is expected; it is what people are used to, so the "church" delivers. It is just so symptomatic of the times.
Steve Blackwell
www.IndyWatchman.com
Thank you Steve.
You are so right. A recent browsing of my local Christian book store left me with the same impression, not to mention a heaviness like never before. It's getting so much worse because of this general acceptance of these things.
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