The Last of My Kind

There are many different types of books in the world today. There are books to be read for enjoyment, others to further one’s for either educational or personal reasons, and then there are books that just make us laugh and smile and brighten our day. So if you were asked to chose to be any book in the world on the condition that you were the last one in existence, what a challenge it would be?? Out of the billions or trillions of books in the world how could one chose. Well it was rather simple for me to choose which book I would be because it’s a book that has touched more lives in the world than any other before or after its release. That book is the Bible.

Considered to be part of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, there really is no book in history that compares to it. Not only as the basis for Christianity, The Bibles shows and teaches ideas that make civilized society as we know it possible. The Ten Commandments is the basis of what we consider right and just today. The Bible teaches that we are all imperfect beings, and rather than judging others and they’re transgressions against us, how we should forgive and learn to love our neighbors. That though we may have done horrible things in our past, it is still possible to change and to change for the better. However there are many atheists in the world and in 2004, as much as 9% of the United States population would be saying that “The Bible” really doesn’t have any importance to them because of their belief that there is no God. However one doesn’t need to believe in The Bible to be able to learn from it. It is true that not all the answers to life’s questions are written within the Bible but the lessons and principals are universal, which all people can live by and benefit from as Titus Shangadi shows. A man once a violent gang member, where anger and violence made up his existence and by studying the Bible he changed his personality and found happiness.

The Bible is an intriguing and important book that has no doubt influenced and changed the world. The lessons and principles that are within its pages show us the best that humanity has to offer: love, forgiveness, peace, happiness, honesty, joy, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control. However one of its most powerful qualities that we often overlook is the hope that it gives to humanity. The hope that we can change our lives for the better, that we are capable of more than just being a slave to our own desires and wishes, that though we are sometimes undeserving of kindness we are shown compassion. That is why I would choose to be The Bible, because the hope that it provides along with its teachings not only has the power to change the world for the better but to change humanity for the better.