The Bible isn't meant to be left unquestioned; it's meant to be opened and read and questioned. And everyone has questions about the Bibleāfrom the senior pastor of the big church down the road to the guest at the hotel off the interstate. Where did it come from? Who wrote it? Why are people so inspired by it (or fearful of it)? What does it have to do with my life? Hal Seed takes you on a tour into and behind the Bible, so that you get to know it and the God who makes himself known in it.
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No other book has influenced man and history as has the Bible; its influence is reflected in the works of artists, poets, statesmen, musicians, sculptors, and scientists.
Steven Kumar
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Who Wrote the Bible?
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.
Woodrow Wilson
Before I read a new book, I always want to know who wrote it. After all, an authorās background and bias, interests and agenda, will have tremendous influence on the contents of his or her writing. So the most basic Bible question is, who wrote it?
Bible Basics
I love it when friends pick up a Bible for the first time. They discover a world they never knew existed. The opening chapters of Genesis describe a perfect world. Then thereās the Fall that destroyed paradise. Followed by Godās rebuilding, which continues to this day. The Bible is like no other book ever written. Itās the story of God and the history of the development of humanity. When people pick up a Bible, they discover their story in a way they never knew it before.
The Bible was written long ago, in foreign lands, languages and cultures. Some of it is hard to understand. Mark Twain said, āItās not the parts of the Bible I canāt understand that bother me, itās the parts that I do understand.ā This is a book that reads you while youāre reading it.
Maybe the most striking thing about the Bible is, people who begin reading it never stop reading it. My grandmother was introduced to a Bible as soon as she could read. At ninety-one she had a Bible with her at the hospital. In her final moments we recited Psalm 23 together.
My experience with the Bible started in my early teenage years. I laughed at a friend who said heād been talking with God that morning. The idea seemed ridiculous to me. Then I attended a Christian coffee house meeting with him. I opened a Bible for the first time at that meeting. It was a borrowed Bible. The next morning I asked for a Bible for my birthday. Since that day, not a week has gone by that I havenāt read some portion of Scripture and grown from it.
Questions
Everyone who reads the Bible has questions about it. Heck, every- one who has heard of the Bible has questions about it. Throughout these next twenty chapters, Iāll do my best to answer the biggest and most frequently asked questions for you. My goal and purpose is not to answer detailed questions on specific passages. Those are important, so Iāll point you to tools that can do that for you. My purpose here is to give you a broad and big picture understanding of what the Bible is all about, how it came into existence, and how to get the most out of it so that when you finish youāll have a love for the Bible. Toward the end of the book, Iāll show you how to read the Bible in a way that will improve your life daily. It might just be that when you finish The Bible Questions you will find yourself starting a lifelong adventure in the most important book ever written.
Throughout the ages Christians have valued the Bible so highly that every theory, every controversy and every potential controversy has been documented and discussed in hundreds of books. Everything thatās countable, quantifiable or identifiable has been published multiple times. I admit, I like studying those types of details. But thatās not what The Bible Questions is about. This isnāt a scholarly work. Itās for people who have questions about the Bible. I want you to read ten to fifteen minutes a day for the next twenty days, then close the book and say, āI get it! I understand what the Bible is, what itās about and where it came from. And now I want to read it for myself!ā
At the end of each chapter Iāll ask you to spend five minutes on a short passage of Scripture. People who are in a hurry will be tempted to skip this assignment. Donāt. I believe youāll find this the most helpful part of our experience together.
How the Bible Is Laid Out
The word Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, which means ābook.ā The Bible has been such an important part of Christian history that those who read it find themselves simply calling it āthe Book.ā
Yet the Bible is more than a book. Itās a book of books. Itās a compilation of sixty-six different books written over a period of fifteen hundred years by more than forty writers. These writers came from over twenty different occupations, wrote in a variety of moods, in three different languages, from ten different countries, on three different continents, with a consistency of message and without contradictions.[1]
Open a Bible to its table of contents and youāll find this:
