How many books does the Bible show there are in heaven, and what are they? Please explain in full. W. B. R. It is impossible for any mortal to tell how many books there are in heaven. We do not know. We can not understand, nor is it needful that we should know God's method of bookkeeping. There is certainly the Book of Life, which may be of many volumes, so far as we know, in which are written the names of those who will be saved, from the beginning to the end. The names written indelibly in that book, which will never be blotted out, are the names of characters. When one is called and responds to that call, his name is written in the Book of Life as a candidate for one of those characters. If he is faithful to the end, all his sins will be blotted out, and his name will be retained. If he is unfaithful, his name will be blotted out of the Book of Life, but the name of the character will remain, and some one else will be called to possess it. See Rev. 3:5. There are also the books of record, in which are kept the names of all beings, and an account of the deeds which they do. Doubtless there are many books of this kind. Rev. 20:12 speaks of the judgment of the wicked. The dead were judged out of those things written in the books, according to their works. The book of remembrance mentioned in Mal. 3:16 may be another book: "Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah harkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon His name." This may be a book in which the deeds of the righteous alone are recorded. Evidently it is this book of which David speaks: "Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: are they not in Thy book?" God had there recorded the tears of contrition. The writing of the deeds of the wicked is referred to in Isa. 65:6: "Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence;" and in Ps. 50:21, "I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." It is to the Book of Life that Moses evidently refers in Ex. 32:32: "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written." From these scriptures it would appear that there is, first the Book of Life, in which the names of all characters who will be saved are written from the very beginning; the book of records of the wicked; and the book of records of the righteous. And then doubtless there are books of record in which are the names of all, irrespective of character.