How design can communicate God’s loveOM InternationalHow design can communicate God’s love.In the 1990s a Muslim man in the southern Russia took home a Russian Bible with a cross on it. It created a scandal in his family. In 2004, he brought home another Russian Bible. This one had a Central Asian design on the cover and the words in it were familiar to Muslims. His family welcomed it. The Bible with the cross caused offence because to the Muslims of the former Soviet Union the cross is a symbol of Russians. It reminds them of the foreigners who took over their country, made them change their language and tried to make them change their religion. The man said, “Before I was a believer, if I had read about Avram (the Russian name for Abraham), it would have sounded foreign. But when I read about “Ibrahim” – that's interesting to me! I’ve read about this man in the Koran.” The words and the design made the Bible come alive in his own culture. Credit: OM International
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