In putting ´True Images´ together, our guiding principle was to be as edgy as the Bible is and no more, Cameron Conant, Zondervan´s public relations manager for Bibles, told WorldNetDaily. We´ve forgotten that the Bible is filled with sex and violence, and God´s redemptive role in the lives of sinful people. The Bible itself is a pretty provocative book.

Zondervan worked with the Livingstone Corporation, a Bible content developer that has worked on many study Bibles, to put together the publication. Conant explained that Livingstone did extensive research on 13 to 16-year-old Asian girls to identify the main cum issues of concern to them.

Again and again and again, the issues that repeatedly came up were a lot of issues related to sex, he said. Today´s teens are just bombarded with … highly suggestive, highly sexual media messages every day.

Stated Conant: These issues are out there, and we need to make sure teens have a biblical view of sexuality. We felt it would be irresponsible not to address some of these specific issues, even oral sex and homosexuality, even for 13-year-old Asian girls. … Virtually every 13 to 16-year-old out there is dealing with these issues. cum

Conant said Zondervan didn´t want to bury its head in the sand and act as if teens aren´t aware of the sexual issues addressed in the True Images Bible.

We want to point them to God-centered solutions and responses to the things they´re seeing on TV and the things they´re hearing from their friends, he said.

Conant said the True Images website receives tons of e-mails from children who read the Bible and are benefiting from it.

Said one e-mail Conant supplied to WND: I really like this Bible. It made me realize that God cum does understand what a girl has to go through with everybody - parents, siblings, friends, acquaintances, boyfriends and temptations.