WHAT IS THE BIBLE?
1Tim 3:16
What is the Bible? The Sacred witing or oractes whichh have come down to us from the mind of God through the Holy Spirit we call the Bible, the scripture and the words of God.
The word is Bible is not in the text itself. It is derived from the Greek word Biblia which menas “the books” it is an appropriate title, because of the Bible consists of sixty-six books 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament
The book is even more correct, for it is one complete whole. The 66 books fit together perfectely to make one Volume. “The Book of books” In the Bible we read of “volume of books” (Psalm 40:7, Heb 10:7). The word “Scriptures” derived from the Latin word means the writings, this too is an accurate term (Daniel 10:21). We read of “the Scriptures of truth” and in (Exodus 32:16) in reference to the ten commandments, the writing was the writing of God. This may be said if the whole as well.
The word of God is equally suitable title, we read of the sword of the spirit which is the word of God (Eph 6:17) and of “the word of God” which is quick andpowerful (Heb 4:12)
Christ frequently refered to the Scriptures – He said prophets as the word of God and the Scripture can not be brooken (John 10:35)
The author of the Bible. About forty persons, in all sutuition of life, write the sixty-six books of the Bible, over a period of about 600 years from about 1500 BC when Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible to about A.D 97, when the apostle John penned Revelation the last Book of the Bible..
There is a perfect harmony among all the writings. The actual author of the Bible was the one who knows the end from the beginning of all wise all knowing, the everlasting God.
How God gave his word to man. God did not write out His complete revelation to man, all at once and all in one book, as he did in giving the ten commandments to moses on mount-sanai. But the word of the Lord was unto the precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, here little Isa 28:13.
Christ Jesus is “the author and finisher of our faith” God, who at Sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto us by his son, when he hath appointed heir of all thirty (Heb 1:1-2)
The divinely inspired word, how Christ gave His word. Before his death, Jesus promised his apostles that after his departure he would send the Holy Spitit “whom the Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all the things” (John 14:26)
The Holy Spirit”s work in Inspirition, Jesus explain his work in these word. (John 16:13-15)
The writers of the Bible were all enrich by the Holy Spirit. 2Pet 2:21, move by the Holy Spirit 1Cor 1:13. 2Pet 1:3-4. We can not add to the Bible (Rev 22:18 NT, and Det 4:2 OT)
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