If the Bible is the best selling book, why is it not on the top book selling-list?

Question

If it is the best-seller, then it should be #1 on the list.

Answer 1

The Bible is the bset seller and it is a top selling book. It is the # 1 selling book in the lives of men and women.

Answer 2

It is number one on the list.......

Rank Author Book First
Publication
Date Approximate
Sales
1 Various The Holy Bible c. 1451-55 More than 6 Billion
2 Mao Tse-Tung Quotations from Chairman Mao 1966 900,000,000
3 Noah Webster The American Spelling Book 1783 Up to 100,000,000
4 Mark C. Young Guiness Book of World Records 1955 More than 90,000,000
5 World Almanac Editors World Almanac 1868 73,500,000
6 William Holmes McGuffey The McGuffey Readers 1836 60,000,000
7 Benjamin Spock The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care 1946 More than 50,000,000
8 Elbert Hubbard A Message to Garcia 1899 More than 40,000,000
9 Charles Monroe Sheldon In His Steps, What Would Jesus Do? 1896 More than 30.000,000
10 Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls 1966 More than 30,000,000

Answer 3

Good question! It is because that the bible is published in different translations, different models, different sizes - and by dozens, if not hundreds, of publishers! Since the selling-lists just gather information from publishers on specific book titles - and specific editions of that book - they do not consider the aggregate amount.

There is absolutely no question: the bible is the best seller of all time, every year.

god bless

Answer 4

No book has ever been printed more of. But there are different versions of it. The King James is the most incorrect; but loved by those that want to distort the Bible to mean what they want it to.
The NIV, ASV, NLT are a few of the up to date, more popular, versions.
In1945 bibles from about 200A.D. were found and mistakes the were made from man writing and rewriting them over so many centuries were discovered.

Answer 5

Because generally people who buy it have already read it.
They want to give it to someone or have another one.

And nobody really cares. They're not going to see the list and be like "OMG. We have to get this top selling book, I think it's called the bible..."
Because no.

Oh, and martin s, you did not just use jesus-is-lord.com.
I am afraid for the human race.

Answer 6

It is the top selling book of all time. It consistently outsells the majority of books. Each year some books come along that outsell the Bible during the course of that year and then their sales drop off an they are largely forgotten about. But the Word of the Lord endures forever!

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/divine.htm

The Perennial Freshness of the Bible Bears Witness to its Divine Inspirer
The full force of the present argument will appeal only to those who are intimately acquainted with the Bible, and the more familiar the reader is with the Sacred Canon the more heartily will he endorse the following statements. Just as a knowledge of Latin is necessary in order to understand the technique of a treatise on pathology or physiology, or just as a certain amount of culture and academic learning is an indispensable adjunct to intelligently follow the arguments and apprehend the illustrations in a dissertation on philosophy or psychology, so a first-hand acquaintance with the Bible is necessary to appreciate the fact that its contents never become commonplace.

One of the first facts which arrests the attention of the student of God's Word is that, like the widow's oil and meal which nourished Elijah, the contents of the Bible are never exhausted. Unlike all other books, the Bible never acquires a sameness, and never diminishes in its power of response to the needy soul which comes to it. Just as a fresh supply of manna was given each day to the Israelites in the wilderness, so the Spirit of God ever breaks anew the Bread of Life to them who hunger after righteousness; or, just as the loaves and fishes in the hands of our Lord were more than enough to feed the famished multitude--a surplus still remaining--so the honey and milk of the Word are more than sufficient to satisfy the hunger of every human soul--the supply still remaining undiminished for new generations.

Although one may know, word for word, the entire contents of some chapter of Scripture, and although he may have taken the time to ponder thoughtfully every sentence therein, yet, on every subsequent occasion, provided one comes to it again in the spirit of humble inquiry, each fresh reading will reveal new gems never seen there before and new delights will be experienced never met with previously. The most familiar passages will yield as much refreshment at the thousandth perusal as they did at the first. The Bible has been likened to a fountain of living water: the fountain is ever the same, but the water is always fresh.

Herein the Bible differs from all other books, sacred or secular. What man has to say can be gathered from his writings at the first reading: failure to do so indicates that the writer has not succeeded in expressing himself clearly, or else the reader has failed to apprehend his meaning. Man is only able to deal with surface things, hence he cares only about surface appearances; consequently, whatever man has to say lies upon the surface of his writings, and the capable reader can exhaust them by a single perusal. Not so with the Bible. Although the Bible has been studied more microscopically than any other book (even its very letters have been counted and registered) by many of the keenest intellects for the past two thousand years, although whole libraries of works have been written as commentaries upon its teachings, and although literally millions of sermons have been preached and printed in the attempt to expound every part of Holy Writ, yet its contents have not been exhausted, and in this twentieth century new discoveries are being made in it every day!

The Bible is an inexhaustible mine of wealth: it is the El Dorado of heavenly treasure. It has veins of ore which never "give out" and pockets of gold which no pick can empty; yet, like earthly treasures, the gems of God must be diligently sought if they are to be found. Potatoes lie near the surface of the ground, but diamonds require much laborious digging, so also the precious things of the Word are only revealed to the prayerful, patient and diligent student.

The Bible is like a spring of water which never runs dry. No matter how many may drink from its life-giving stream, and no matter how often they may quench their thirst at its refreshing waters, its flow continues and never fails to satisfy the needs of all who come and take of its perennial springs. The Bible has a whole continent of Truth yet to be explored. A learned scholar who died during the present year of grace had read through the Bible no fewer than five hundred times! What other book, ancient or modern, Oriental or Occidental, would repay even a fiftieth reading?

How can we account for this marvelous characteristic of the Bible? What explanation can we offer for this startling phenomenon? It is only stating a commonplace axiom when we affirm that what is finite is fathomable. What the mind of man has produced the mind of man can exhaust. If human mortals had written the Bible its contents would have been "mastered" ages ago. In view of the fact that the contents of the Scriptures cannot be exhausted, that they never acquire sameness or staleness to the devout student, and that they always speak with fresh force to the quickened soul that comes to them, is it not apparent that none other than the infinite mind of God could have created such a wonderful Book as the Bible?

Answer 7

most people just have a Bible to make other people think they're moral people...they don't actually read the book

Answer 8

it is the best selling book of all time.

Answer 9

It is, and always has been the 'most sold' book. I don't think it is ranked among today's book clubs.

Answer 10

It is on my list !