The Bible
If someone gave you a gift, so special…it could make you live forever. When you read this gift, it could be easily likened to a map pointing to treasure. What if at the end of this ‘map’, you found a treasure that enabled you to live forever. Would you read it? Of course you would!
Because of the exciting reward that can be found by reading the bible, 6,001,500,000 copies have been printed, and published internationally. Some people are familiar with the term: ‘Holy Scriptures. In these, 66 ‘books’ are formed in 1, called ‘The Bible’. Who is the author of this most famous book? Isaiah 66:5 tells us who inspired the writing of this book: “The word of Jehovah, put down in writing.” The benefits to reading The Bible are endless,
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Out of all the prophecies in the bible, many of them have already been fulfilled. As an example, let’s look at the city of Babylon. Through the Holy Spirit, Jehovah told Isaiah that it would be destroyed. (Isaiah 13:19; 14:22, 23) The interesting part is, he told Isaiah not only when this would take place, but how it would take place. The army would march into the river, which would be dry; then it would march right in and destroy the city, without a battle. Isaiah even foretold which King it would be, who would conquer. Cyrus. (bh p. 23-25) Isaiah 44:27–45:2.
About 200 years later—on October 5/6, 539 B.C.E The Babylonians were celebrating a recent victory, and thought they were safe behind their massive wall. While that was happening, Cyrus channeled the water that flowed through the city. Once he did that, it was shallow enough the enable the men to cross over to the city gate! Because they were partying, someone had left the city gate open! They went in and destroyed the city, just as foretold. .(bh p.
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Written in 2 Timothy 3:16 “beneficial for teaching, reproving, for setting things straight.” Examples of wisdom that we can practically use by reading the Bible, is located in chapters 5-7 of the book of Matthew. This was Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. In his teaching, he spoke about a number of things, including how to find true happiness, how to settle fights and arguments, how to prioritize, and how to handle money matters. ‘Everything he said there applied to the people he told, just as they would apply today.’ (bh-pg. 18-19)
There are numerous bible principles that can apply to everyone. Some of these deal with work, morality, family life, and personal life. We can be sure that by reading the bible, it is really in our best interest, letting us benefit ourselves. The wisdom that we can find in this book is summed up when God wrote this to Isaiah: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself.”—Isaiah 48:17.
All these points lead up to one thing. The bible is a wonderful book that can help many people today, and should be available on all shelves, even
Many argue that the bible is out of date and unhelpful for humans today. This is not the case though. The bible is essentially the guidebook to leading a perfect and happy life, and just like you would need to read some sort of manual before constructing a product, so to should you read the bible for guidance on your own life. This is what Jehovah's Witnesses try their best to do, though it is not easy because all humans are imperfect.
Chapter 3, The Bible, Creation, and Science by Robert Branson, PhD presented some interesting aspects of biblical interpretations relative to science. “With the rapid changes and developments that all areas of modern science produce, it is a general belief that if an informed person is made to choose between science or the Bible, science will be chosen.” (loc 647 Kindle, Branson) Dr. Branson tries and explain the three positions people take with biblical studies. The three positions examined by Dr. Branson are 1. Concordance, 2. Young-Earth Creati...
People, specifically in the U.S., have gone from viewing the bible as “The absolute, unchanging word of God,” to, “A collection of guidelines, allegories, myths, and stories useful for good living. Offensive versus must be igno...
Even though humans wrote the text, translating it and passing it down from generations to generations, God’s truth is unchanging. Debates of the inerrancy of the bible cannot usurp God as the King of grace. Instead of focusing on the inerrancy of the Bible, individuals who wish to seek a life of faith should focus on the inspiration God is showing them in his word. These revelations should move them into applicable, daily life changing implications from what they have learned. God shows revelations of himself through the Bible, and his character is revealed time and time again throughout scripture. Any faulty facts or discrepancies in grammar or data, should not take away from the value that scripture holds. When we read scripture we bring new meaning of interpretations of the truths God shows us, since new eras and environmental factors will be influential on how we process information. The bible is not just a fact book, telling humans stories of the past, but instead the bible is inspired instructions for how we can deal with spiritual and ethical encounters we
Gomes, Peter J. The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart. New York: Morrow, 1996.
The four criminal law elements of self-defense are nonaggressor, necessity, proportionality, and reasonable belief. Nonaggressor is when the defender did not in any way provoke or stray an attack. When it comes to self-defense it is only available when it comes to unprovoked attacks. If one provokes someone they cannot use self-defense to defend themselves from the attack because they provoked it. However there is one exception and that is the withdrawal exception. The withdrawal exception is when the initial aggressor withdrawals completely from the attack they provoked they can defend themselves against their initial victims. An example of nonaggressor self-defense is Melody hanging out at the bar by herself and Samantha comes up to her trying
The Bible is our textbook life, and it also places a high value on doctrine. God wants us to know important things, and gave us the bible to help, and guide us. Unfortunately, many Christians know very little about the Bible and its Christian doctrine. We believers put our interest in other things, and know a lot about things that do not matter. In Romans 6: 1 introduces us to the major doctrines of the Christian faith.
Mears, Henrietta C.. What the Bible Is All About. Rev. and updated. ed. Ventura, Calif., U.S.A.: Regal Books, 1983. Print.
Authority of Scripture reconciles the community with God and can transform our lives. To participate in the fuller blessing of understanding, it is important to view Scripture with historical and literary sensitivity, interpret theocentrically, ecclesially, and contextually. I realize each of these can be overwhelming to the average person who is seeking direction for a specific concern in their life. Therefore, Migliore reminds us, interpreting Scripture is practical engagement in the living of Christian faith, love, and hope in a still redeemed world. When we listen carefully to the voices of the past, from a worldwide culture, and guided by the Holy Spirit, we will open ourselves to those transformational opportunities.
The authors acknowledge that many books have been written on this topic. Their goal is to be unique by focusing on different types of literature (genres) so their readers will understand how to properly interpret them in the context they were written. This review will examine the principles the authors use to interpret the Bible. The review will summarize the book, followed by a critique, and a conclusion.
Spanning fifteen hundred years with over 30,700 manuscripts, extensive archaeological evidence and 2000 prophecies that have been fulfilled, the Bible is God 's word to us. (Yohn, 2013). In the Bible, the Father is essentially giving us a picture of the history of the world and is also leading us to a place where we must make a decision that involves whether we choose to accept his son or reject him and remain guilty. Additionally, the Word of God tells us what happened that caused this breach between us and God, the result of this and how God has rectified it through the blood of his son. In fact, from the beginning of the Bible (written 1400 B.C.) to the last book (A.D. 96), God is showing us why we need Jesus and how to find him. Just as a plant’s root system propagates and occupies the pot that encloses it, Jesus permeates the entire Bible. Therefore, the motif of the Bible is the story of the redemption of mankind and it all points to Jesus as the messiah and savior who secures this for all.
Secondly, I would take the Bible as a covenant in my life. God gave the Bible for his people as a Covenant, in order to live a holy life according to Bible. Therefore, God’s children should read scripture daily to study what God’s commands and to apply in daily life. As a child of God I usually read the Bible daily for my personal spiritual growth.
The Bible and the written laws of nature are like two different books. These books are written and read in completely different languages. The Bible was written in the view of people of that time; whereas, science laws are constantly written and changed for modern world. Therefore, there always will be some controversy between two thoughts. There are still many unknown things in the world that science is yet to find out. Christianity on the other hand accepts extraordinary occurrences and prevents science from explaining things that it cannot. Christianity is needed to explain unbelievable phenomena that are part of our daily life.
The bible has teachings that can be applied to any situation in life. The book of Galatians, found in the New Testament, houses just a few of these teachings. Galatians...
relevant to life, such as do not kill and do not steal. The bible also