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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Names of the Bible 1.       BIBLE

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Names of the Bible 1.       BIBLE Daniel 9:2 (KJV) 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by BOOKS the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. .

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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Names of the Bible 1.       BIBLE

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  1. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Names of the Bible 1.       BIBLE Daniel 9:2 (KJV) 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by BOOKS the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

  2. 2.       OTHER NAMES OF THE BIBLE ARE: “the Scripture” (Mk. 15:28; Jn. 7:38; 2 Tim. 3:16-17); “the Scriptures” (Lk. 24:27, 32; Jn. 5:39; Acts 17:11); “the Holy Scriptures” (Rom. 1:2; 2 Tim. 3:15); “the Promises” (Rom. 9:4-5; 15:8); “the Oracles of God” (Rom. 3:2; Heb. 5:12; 1 Pet. 4:11); “the Lively (living) Oracles” (Acts 7:38); “the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms” (Lk. 24:25, 44); “the Law of the Lord” (Ps. 1:2); “the Law and the Prophets” (Mt. 5:17; 11:13; Acts 13:15); “the Book of the Lord” (Isa. 34:16); “the Word of God” (Mk. 7:13; Rom. 10:17; Heb. 4:12); “the Sword of the Spirit” (Eph. 6:17); “the Old and New Testament” (Lk. 22:20; 2 Cor. 3:6-15; Heb. 9:15); “the Word of Christ” (Col. 3:16); “the Word of Life” (Phil. 2:16); “the Scripture of Truth” (Dan. 10:21); “the Word of Truth” (2 Tim. 2:15); and “the Gospel of Christ” (Rom. 1:16)

  3. II. What the Bible is Not (Isa. 28:9-11) III. What the Bible Is (Rom. 1:16; Jn. 15:7) It is a mirror to reflect (Jas. 1:23); a hammer to convict (Jer. 23:29); a fire to refine (Jer. 23:29);seed to multiply (1 Pet. 1:23); water to cleanse (Eph. 5:26; Jn. 15:3); a lamp to guide (Ps. 119:105); and food to nourish, including milk for babes (1 Pet. 2:2); bread for the hungry (Mt. 4:4); meat for men (Heb. 5:11-14); and honey for dessert (Ps. 19:10). It is rain and snow to refresh (Isa. 55:10); a sword to cut (Heb. 4:12); a bow to revenge (Hab. 3:9); gold to enrich (Ps. 19:7-10); and power to create life and faith (1 Pet. 1:23; Rom. 10:17).

  4. IV. General Facts About the Bible 1.       HOW THE BIBLE WAS GIVEN TO MAN. It was given through “the audible voices of God” (Mt. 3:16-17; 17:5; Jn. 12:28; Deut. 5:24); “of angels” (Acts 7:38; Heb. 2:2); “of prophets” (Acts 3:21; 2 Pet. 1:21); “of Jesus Christ” (Heb. 1:1-3; Rev. 1:1); and “of the apostles” (Acts 1:2; Eph. 4:7-11). It came through “visions” (Isa. 6; Dan. 7-8; Ezek. 1); “dreams” (Dan. 2; Mt. 1:20; 2:12); “revelation” (Gal. 1:15-16; Eph. 3:3); and “inspiration” (2 Tim. 3:15-17). 2.       LANGUAGES OF THE BIBLE. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic

  5. The longest two words are in Isa. 8:1and in the title ofPs. 56; the longest verse, Esther 8:9; shortest verse, Jn. 11:35; middle book,Micah; middle verse, Ps. 118:8; middle and shortest chapter,Ps. 117; longest book, Psalms; shortest book, 2 John; longest chapter, Ps. 119. Chapter divisions were made inA.D. 1236. Four verses inPs. 107are alike: 8, 15, 21, and 31. Also 2 Ki. 19 and Isa. 36, Ezra 2 and 7, and 2 Chron. 36:22-23 and Ezra 1:1-3a, are alike. V. The Apocryphal Books (Mal. 3:1) (2 Macc. 2:23; 15:38)

  6. VI. The Bible An Inspired Revelation From God 1.       REASONS MAN CAN EXPECT A REVELATION FROM GOD 2.       WHAT MAN MAY EXPECT OF A DIVINE REVELATION 3.       THE MEANING OF REVELATION (Eph. 3:3; Col. 1:26; Rev. 1:1; Rom. 16:25) 4.       THE MEANING OF INSPIRATION (2 Tim. 3:15-17); (Acts 3:21; 2 Pet. 1:21) 5.       THE PURPOSE OF INSPIRATION 6.       THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REVELATION AND INSPIRATION (Lk. 1:1-4);(Rev. 1:1, 11); (1 Pet. 1:11; 1 Cor. 14:13-19); (1 Cor. 2:12-16; 14:30)

  7. 7.       TO WHAT DEGREE WERE THE WRITERS OF THE BIBLE INSPIRED? (Exod. 32:16; Deut. 5:4, 24; Mt. 3:17; 17:5; Jn. 12:28); (Exod. 4:12; Num. 23:5; Ezek. 2:7; 3:10-11; Acts 3:21); (Exod. 34:17; 2 Pet. 1:21; Rev. 1:11); (Dan. 12:8-9; Jn. 20:30-31; Lk. 1:1-4; Acts 1:1-2) VII. Proofs of Revelation and Inspiration 1.       ITS WONDERFUL UNITY 2.       ITS SUPERIORITY TO OTHER BOOKS 3.       ITS INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD 4.       THE CHARACTER OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT IT PROVES THE BIBLE TO BE INSPIRED OF GOD 5.       THE GREATNESS OF THOSE WHO ACCEPT IT AS A REVELATION FROM GOD PROVES THAT IT IS MORE THAN AN ORDINARY HUMAN PRODUCTS

  8. “Above all, the pure light of revelation has had an influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of society. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”—George Washington “I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”—Thomas Jefferson “The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world.”—John Quincy Adams “It [the Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.”—Andrew Jackson “It was for the love of the truths of this great and good Book that our fathers abandoned their native shores for the wilderness.”—Zachary Taylor

  9. “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. It is the best book which God has given to man.”—Abraham Lincoln “I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.”—W. E. Gladstone “Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement . . . has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible.”—Theodore Roosevelt “A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this” (a knowledge of the Bible.)—Woodrow Wilson

  10. “There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals, etc. . . . he who seeks for guidance . . . may look inside its covers and find illumination.”—Herbert Hoover “The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen; and such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.”—John Adams “To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”—Ulysses S. Grant

  11. “The young must be taught, and they must be taught truly if the spring-waters of democracy are to be kept untainted . . . The influence of the Scriptures in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing and thinking of the men who made the nation possible . . . They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course and determined their action.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt “England has become great and happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ . . . This is the secret of England's greatness.”—Queen Victoria “Do not join those who either ignore the Bible altogether, or, at least, give it a spurious interpretation of their own devising.”—Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany

  12. “What I was as an artist, seemed to me of some importance while I lived; what I really was as a believer in Christ Jesus, is the only thing of importance to me now. What can I do with respect to the next world without my Bible? No philosopher offers anything that meets, and, much less, relieves, my case.”—John Bacon “The Bible is more than a Book; it is a living being with an action, a power which invades everything that opposes its extension.”—Napoleon Bonaparte “The sacredness of the Bible awes me.”—William Cohen Bryant “It is hard to make a choice of the most beautiful passage in a Book which is gemmed with beautiful passages as the Bible.”—Mark Twain

  13. “The only spiritual light in the world comes through Jesus Christ and the inspired Book . . . Without His presence and the teachings of the Bible we would be enshrouded in moral darkness and despair . . . nations without Christ, contrasted with those where Christ is accepted, reveal so marked a difference that no arguments are needed.”—Samuel Colgate “All other books are of little importance in comparison with the Holy Scriptures, which are a revelation from God, and are given as the only rule of faith and practice.”—Alexander Cruden

  14. “Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe, that He governs it by His providence; that He ought to be worshipped; that the most acceptable service we can render Him is doing good to others; that the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another world respecting his conduct in this. As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think His system of morals, as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see.”—Benjamin Franklin “I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I were sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”—Alexander Hamilton

  15. “I hope that the Bible will be more and more studied by all ranks of people and expounded simply by the teachers, for the religion of the people can never be founded on moral philosophy.”—Alfred Tennyson “We, the undersigned, Students of the Natural Sciences, desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occasion for casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of God written in the book of nature and God's Word written in Holy Scripture, to contradict one another . . . physical science is not complete, but is only in a condition of progress.”—Signed by eight hundred scientists of Great Britain, recorded in the Bodelian Library, Oxford, England.

  16. “The Bible is the Book of faith, and a Book of doctrine, and a Book of morals, and a Book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a Book which teaches man his responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.”—Daniel Webster 6.       MAN COULD NOT HAVE WRITTEN THE BIBLE IF HE WOULD, NOR WOULD HE HAVE WRITTEN IT IF HE COULD 7.       GOOD MEN MUST HAVE WRITTEN THE BIBLE 8.       ALL MAN'S NEEDS ARE MET BY THE BIBLE 9.       THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIBLE THROUGH THE AGES PROVES ITS INSPIRATION

  17. 10.     THE HEAVENLY CHARACTER OF ITS CONTENTS PROVES THE BIBLE TO BE A REVELATION FROM GOD 11.     THE RESPONSE OF THE SOUL TO THE BIBLE PROVES ITS SOURCE 12.     THE INFINITE DEPTH AND LOFTY IDEALS OF THE BIBLE PROVE A DIVINE AUTHOR

  18. 13.     FULFILLED PROPHECY PROVES THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE 14.     MIRACLES ALSO PROVE THE DIVINE REVELATION OF THE BIBLE 15.     THE TESTIMONY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE INSPIRATION OF THE OLD (Mt. 5:17-18; 8:17; 12:40-42; Lk. 4:18-21; 10:25-28; 15:29-31; 17:32; 24:25-45; Jn. 5:39-47) 16.     THE CLAIMS OF THE BIBLE AND ITS WRITERS PROVE ITS INSPIRATION (Exod. 20:1; 24:4; 35:1; 2 Sam. 23:2); (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:21); (Deut. 8:3; Heb. 4:12); (Jn. 6:63; 8:31-32; 1 Pet. 1:23; 2 Pet. 1:4; Mt. 4:4; Ps. 1; Rom. 1:16) 17.     ITS PERFECTION (Ps.19:7; Jas. 1:25) 18.     THE BIBLE IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT 19.     THE BIBLE IS HISTORICALLY CORRECT 20.     ITS UNIVERSAL ADAPTABILITY FOR ALL AGES AND PEOPLES

  19. 21.     THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF THE BIBLE 22.     TWENTY CENTURIES HAVE NOT IMPROVED IT 23.     THE DOCTRINES OF THE BIBLE ARE CONTRARY TO ALL HUMAN TEACHINGS (1 Cor. 2:14) 24.     THE GENUINENESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE BIBLE PROVES IT TO BE AN INSPIRED REVELATION FROM GOD. (1)     THE CLAIMS OF THE BIBLE ITSELF (2)     SECULAR HISTORY (3)     MANUSCRIPTS (4)     LECTIONARIES (5)     THE PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS (6)     ANCIENT AND MODERN VERSIONS COMPLETE THE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE, THAT THE BIBLE IS GENUINE AND AUTHENTIC (2 Pet. 1:21). 25.     THE BIBLE MUST BE FROM GOD BECAUSE OF THE INEXHAUSTIBLE PROOFS OF ITS INSPIRATION

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