Notes on the Bible
1. What is the Bible? The divinely inspired record of God’s unfolding plan to rescue fallen man.
2. Why should we be concerned with knowing it better? Commanded. Because we want to know more about it and the One Who gave it. To better understand ourselves. To ensure our own spiritual security and help others do the same.
Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
John 12:48 - He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him— the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Acts 17:2 - Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Matthew 28:18-20 - And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
1 Peter 3:15 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
3. A Few Facts to Consider:
1. More than 2,000 times, the writers claimed to be speaking by divine inspiration (verbal [word-for-word], plenary [full] inspiration).
2. This inspired Book is a book of books (66 total, with 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament)
Two main parts (Old and New)
OT: Law, History, Poetry, Prophets (Hebrew Bible – The Law, The Prophets, The Writings)
NT: Biography, History, Epistles, Prophecy
15 Periods of Bible History:
The antediluvian period
The postdiluvian period
The Patriarchal period
The Egyptian period
The wilderness wandering period
The conquest period
The Judges period
The United Kingdom period
The Divided Kingdom period
The Kingdom of Judah period
The Captivity period
The Restoration period
The Between the Testaments period
The Life of Christ period
The New Testament Church period