The Christian Bible is a collection of 66 different books divided into two sections (Old and New Testaments) written by over 40 different authors over a span of 1,500 years in three different languages, yet it presents a unified message of God’s plan and purpose for humanity. Thirty-nine books make up the Old Testament, which was written between around 1,500 BC and 400 BC, starting with the book of Genesis and ending with the Malachi. The Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Bible contain the same 39 books, though they’re listed in different order. (The Roman Catholic church also includes 15 other writings in their Old Testament called the Apocrypha which means “hidden books.” The Roman Catholic church added these books in their Old Testament about 500 years ago at the Council of Trent, but for the first fifteen hundred years the Apocrypha was considered good devotional literature, but not part of the Bible).
The 27 books that make up the New Testament were written over a 50 year span, and they deal with Jesus Christ’s birth, life, death, and resurrection, the beginning of the Christian church, and instruction about how to live as a follower of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament is written primarily in Hebrew, with a little Aramaic, and the New Testament is written exclusively in Greek.
Biblical teaching and preaching.
- Inspiration
- God Breathed
- I Peter 2:20-21
- knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
- Truth
- Profitable for doctrine
- Absolute Truth
- Wrong
- For Reproof
- For the believer
- Can’t expect those to follow that don’t know
- Correction
- Instruction in the right when wrong
- We when lose the way
- Live Right
- Instruction Book
- Complete
- It’s our satisfaction
- Prepare
- Equip us for the things of this world
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