Bible Not Available in 57% Language

Bible Not Available in 57% of WorldLanguages; Most Americans Believethe Bible Is Available in EveryLanguage

By Samuel SmithApril 14, 2015 | 11:35 am

The American Bible Society'srecently released State of theBible survey found that astrong majority of Americansthink the Bible is available inall of the world's languages,despite the fact that 57percent of world languagesare still in need of completedBible translations.

The State of the Bible survey, which was conducted by the Barna Groupand surveyed 2,000 Americans, found that 72 percent of Americans believethe Gospel is available in all of the world's languages. However, the reportstates that only 43 percent of languages actually have Bible translationsavailable.

Out of the world's 6,901 different languages, 1,859 (31 percent) languagesdon't have a Bible translation processes started. Meanwhile, the reportstates that 2,195 (26 percent) languages are in the process of having

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Scripture translated but do not yet have completed Scripture.

Bob Creson, the president of Wycliffe Bible Translators, one of the world'slargest Bible translation agencies, told The Christian Post that although 57percent of the world's languages still don't have completed translations, theBible is being translated into more languages and at a faster rate than everbefore.

He continued: "[2,195] is the highest number in history. There is more workgoing on than ever before. One of the ways I usually talk about it is thatpeople have more access to Scripture than any other time in history in theirfirst language. It gives people the best opportunity to respond to the GoodNews message."

Creson said that within the past six months, the Gospel has been madeavailable in 27 new languages that represent communities totalling over 3million people.

"We are not the only organization doing Bible translations; there are anumber of others. What we try to do here in Orlando, and try to do twice ayear, is we celebrate all the New Testaments and full Bibles that have comeinto completion in the last six months," Creson explained. "We celebrated,last Thursday, 27 of those and that represented almost 3 million people thatnow have access in their first language to the Good News message. Everysix months, it is getting larger and larger and larger, the number ofcompletions."

With Wycliffe holding a vision of having the Bible translation process startedin each of the world's languages by the year 2025, Creson is optimistic thatthe remaining 1,859 languages with no translations yet started will begin tobe tackled within the next 10 years.

"Every year now there are 130 to 160 new translations that are started,"Creson added. "That is why I say that within the next 10 years somethingwill be going on statistically in all of these communities."

The survey, which has +/- 2 margin of error, also found that 98 percent of

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Americans believe that people should have access to the Bible. But withseven in 10 Americans believing that the Bible is already available in all ofthe world's languages, Creson said he sees an opportunity to educate theAmerican public.

"One way to look at it, if you are a Bible translation agency like we are andthe American Bible Society, you can be discouraged by that. But, that justshows you the opportunity that we have to continue to educate the Christianpublic about the need for Bible translation," Creson said. "One of the bigstrengths of the American Bible Society is their geographic reach to be ableto educate people on that issue. We partner with ABS on a number ofdifferent and important translation projects. I am very glad to see themdoing this because they have a great reach to be able to help peopleunderstand that we are not there yet."

"I just look at that there is an opportunity to invite people to be a part ofsomething that is pretty historic because we really do believe that, for those1,900 languages, within the next 10 years there will be something going onin every one of those communities in terms of Bible translations."


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