Instagram-friendly Bible now made available for millennials

After a study conducted back in 2016 in the US showed that fewer millennials go to church compared to the older generation, two millennials sprung into action and created what is known to be an Instagram-friendly Bible.

According to Pia Arcangel's report on Saksi on Wednesday, Brian Chung and Bryan Ye-Chung put up a company, Alabaster Co., to produce a Bible fit for millennials.

Chung said, "I remember receiving my Bible and it was a little intimidating for me. As someone who is a designer, I thought to myself, 'Could this be done differently? Could this be done better?'"

According to the study, education is the main reason for the decline in church attendance.

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate in Georgetown University said that only 14% of Catholic millennials actually go to church every week while the Bible Society in the University of Durham, London said as well that almost half of Christian millennials don't read the Bible.

With the new design inspired by coffee table books and glossy magazines where images are beautifully laid out, Alabaster Co. hopes to reach and capture the millennial audience.

However, the text itself of the Bible was not revised or changed in any way.

According to Chung, Abalaster Co. is slowly designing the 66 books in the Bible and the process itself is long since they also have a digital version of the millennial-friendly Bible.

The Episcopal Commission for the Biblical Apostolate (ECBA) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines said they see nothing wrong with the creation.

The group has actually been working with the Philippine Bible Society to create a Taglish version of the Bible that can be easily understood by the younger generation.

Dra. Naty Pagadut, executive secretary of ECBA said, "The Bible has universal values and it has universal interpretations. Now, if we change it too much to whatever the millennials experience, it's unfair to the writers of the Bible because that was not the intention." —Kaela Malig/KG, GMA News