The twitter account has been going for almost a year, but the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the newest version of the Bible, in that special language we love, The Emoji Bible has finally arrived.
You can purchase it for $2.99 at iBooks.
Check out the perspectives of Christianity Today or The NY Times.
Before you get too excited, there are a lot more English words (from the King James Version), than there are emojis.
While I don’t use emoji’s except to make fun of them, or other people for using them, I don’t think this is a work of Satan (as some apparently do), but a great idea. Anything that gets people to read God’s word in language that speaks to their heart, soul, mind, and strength is a good thing. If you love to use emojis in your various forms of communication, this translation could speak to you. History of full of people who have adapted God’s word into the vernacular of their day in creative ways. The Emoji Bible fits into this tradition.
Although I was a bit disappointed when I typed in one of my favorite verses into the Emoji Bible verse translator site and this is what it gave me, only a couple legit emojis:
4 the whole 🏠 of ahab shall perish: & i will cut off from ahab him that pisseth against the wall, & him that is shut 👆 & left in israel (2 Kings 9:8 in KJV).
What do you think? Thumbs up, or thumbs down?