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The word, “men spoke from God, being borne by the Holy Spirit” (v. 21), has a twofold meaning: first, men were borne by the Spirit; second, men spoke from God. In the original Greek, being borne by the Holy Spirit means being carried along as a ship by the wind. The Bible is God’s speaking in the prophets and in the Son—Heb. 1:1-2:
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First things !rst: what do we even mean when we talk about “the Bible”? The word “bible” comes from the old Greek word biblia, which just means “books.” That might sound weird, because the Bible we use today comes in the form of just one tome. However, the Bible wasn’t always a single work. The Bible, at its core, is a collection ...
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Bible manuscripts to kindle the flames. ‘Huss’ meant ‘goose’ in the Czech language and this hero’s last recorded words hinted at hope for the future. He said, ‘You are now going to burn a goose, but in a century you will have a swan whom you can neither roast nor boil.’ 10 HOW THE HOLY BIBLE CAME TO BE
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The Doctrine of Jesus Christ. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. The Doctrine of Man. The Doctrines of Salvation. The Doctrine of the Church. The Doctrine of the Scriptures. The Doctrine of Angels. The Doctrine of Satan. The Doctrines of the Last Things.
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will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it? And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do ...
The Bible is “a book about them, then, that somehow speaks to you and me, here and now, and it can change the way you think and feel about everything” (p. 15). In what ways do the time period and location of the Bible matter to how we read it here, today? 3. “The Bible did not drop out of the sky; it was written by people” (p. 19).
the genres of the Bible – the types of writing such as narrative, poetry and vision. This is important for two reasons. One is that paying attention to the genres of the Bible alerts us to the variety of material that we find in the Bible, thereby sparing us from a common tendency to reduce the Bible to all one kind of writing.
