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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/look-to-bible-urges-archbishop.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Archbishop of Canterbury said the meaning of life can be deciphered from the King James Bible" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-look-to-bible-urges-archbishop.jpg" alt="The Archbishop of Canterbury said the meaning of life can be deciphered from the King James Bible"/></a></p>
<p>The meaning of life can be deciphered by flicking through the pages of a 400-year-old book, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.</p>
<p>In his annual New Year message for 2011, which has been pre-recorded for the BBC, Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams urges people from all faiths, along with those who do not identify with any particular religion, to take a close look at the King James Bible.</p>
<p>First published as a standard English Bible in 1611, the 400-year-old story of the universe &#8220;can still move and even shock us&#8221;, Dr Williams says.</p>
<p>&#8220;Things move on but it&#8217;s good for us to have some long-lasting furniture in our minds, words and images that have something a bit mysterious about them and that carry important experiences for us that we can&#8217;t find words of our own for,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>To help make sense of their lives, the Archbishop urges people to ensure that some kind of &#8220;big picture&#8221; matters for them, regardless of their beliefs.</p>
<p>He says: &#8220;When we try to make sense of our lives and of who we really are, it helps to have a strongly defined story, a big picture of some kind in the background.</p>
<p>&#8220;As the King James Bible took hold of the imaginations of millions of people in the English-speaking world, it gave them just that &#8211; a big picture, a story in which their lives made sense.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re a Christian or belong to another religion or whether you have nothing you&#8217;d want to call a religion at all, some sort of big picture matters. If we are going to talk about a &#8216;big society&#8217; that will need a big picture, a picture of what human beings are really like and why they&#8217;re so unique and precious.</p>
<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s anniversary is a chance to stop and think about the big picture &#8211; and to celebrate the astonishing contribution made by that book 400 years ago.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s New Year Message 2011 airs on Saturday January 1 at 12.35pm on BBC One, and 5.10pm on BBC Two.</p>
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