Dr RK Behera
Principal, MGM College
We are surrounded by information. News updates every minute. Opinions multiply by the hour. Degrees are earned, skills are polished, and expertise is celebrated. Never before has humanity known so much—yet never before has it struggled so deeply with anxiety, identity, and moral confusion. Knowledge is abundant; peace is scarce. Books are valuable. They train the mind and prepare us for professions. They help us understand economics, science, leadership, and culture. They show us how to succeed in systems. But they cannot repair a fractured conscience. They cannot remove guilt.
They cannot give ultimate meaning to success.
The Bible speaks in a different tone. It does not flatter human strength; it exposes human weakness. It addresses pride without apology, confronts injustice without compromise, and names sin without hesitation. Yet it does not stop at exposure. Where it reveals, it also restores. Where it convicts, it also comforts. It offers forgiveness where shame once ruled and hope where despair once lived.
Information can sharpen arguments. The Bible reshapes motives. Information may produce achievement. The Bible produces accountability.
Across centuries, its words have reached prisoners and presidents, scholars and labourers, the powerful and the forgotten. Its impact is not measured merely in printed pages but in transformed lives—habits broken, relationships reconciled, courage awakened, and purpose rediscovered. That kind of change does not begin in the mind alone; it begins in the heart. Our world does not merely need better analysis. It needs deeper renewal. Policies may regulate behaviour, but only inner transformation reforms character. Education builds nations; integrity sustains them. The difference is clear.
Books inform civilizations. The Bible reforms them. That is why it endures—not as a relic of religion, but as a living voice calling humanity higher. It is not simply to be admired for its language or studied for its history. It is to be lived, obeyed, and allowed to do its searching work within us. In an age overflowing with information, transformation remains the greater need.
