Go forth and emojify - the Gospel according to a smiley

01 June 2016 - 13:49 By S'duduzo Dludla

For God so loved the world that he moved for his word to be emojified. Is that confusion I hear from you naysayers?The bible is now available in emoji form.Totalling just under 3300 pages‚ the book – subtitled “Scripture 4 Millennials” – has been made available on the iTunes store.The translator‚ who prefers to be anonymous‚ asked tweeps to assist with the translation‚ and Twitter gladly did so.There have been some hiccups‚ though‚ such as the lack of a suitable deity emoji. The was pointed out when @BibleEmoji tried to emojify the Book of “Genesis: 01:001:001” of Genesis: 01:001:001 In the beginning created the  & the
— Bible Emoji (@BibleEmoji) April 2, 2016async One user tweeted in response: “ ‘in the beginning angels created the stars & the earth’ i’m pretty sure it doesn’t go like that.”@BibleEmoji replied that the angel smiley he used “= GOD”.The translation process took six months to finish.Speaking to the Guardian‚ the anonymous author said: “I thought if we fast-forwarded 100 years in the future‚ an emoji bible would exist.“So I thought it’d be fun to try to make it ...“I wanted to make it similar to how you might text or tweet a bible verse‚ by shrinking the total character count.”@hashtagdion said: tbh‚ the emoji bible is kind of... cool. I dig it. Would 100% buy it if I had a teenage kid.tbh, the emoji bible is kind of... cool. I dig it. Would 100% buy it if I had a teenage kid. pic.twitter.com/eAAPrTIBhW— #dion (@hashtagdion) June 1, 2016async  - TMG Digital/The Times..

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