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Halley's Bible Handbook with the New International Version [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
eBook by Henry H. Halley
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eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion/Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description: Clear . . . Simple . . . Easy to read--This world-renowned Bible handbook is updated and revised to provide even greater clarity, insight, and usefulness. Now with NIV text! Do you need help understanding the Bible? Halley's Bible Handbook with the New International Version makes the Bible's wisdom and message accessible to you. Whether you've never read the Bible before or have read it many times, you'll find insights here that can give you a firm grasp of God's Word. You'll develop an appreciation for the cultural, religious, and geographic settings in which the story of the Bible unfolds. You'll see how its different themes fit together in a remarkable way. And you'll see the heart of God and the person of Jesus Christ revealed from Genesis to Revelation. Written for both mind and heart, this completely revised, updated, and expanded 25th edition of Halley's Bible Handbook retains Dr. Halley's highly personal style. It features:--All-new maps, photographs, and illustrations--Contemporary design--Bible references in easy-to-read, best-selling New International Version (NIV) Practical Bible reading programs--Helpful tips for Bible study--Fascinating archaeological information--Easy-to-understand sections on how we got the Bible and on church history--Improved indexes
eBook Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc./Zondervan ebook, Published: 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2002
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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 9780310244622
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"This is truly a helpful and welcome revision!"--Concordia Pulpit Resources
The Heart of the Bible
This book is built on two central convictions:
- The Bible is God's Word.
- Christ is the heart and center of the Bible.
I. The Bible Is God's Word
Apart from any theory of inspiration, or any theory of how the Bible books
came to their present form, or how much the text may have suffered in transmission
at the hands of editors and copyists; apart from the question of how much is
to be interpreted literally and how much figuratively, or what is historical
and what may be poetical-if we simply assume that the Bible is just what it
appears to be and study its 66 books to know their contents, we will find a
unity of thought that indicates that one Mind inspired the writing and compilation
of the whole collection of books. We will find that it bears the stamp of its
Author and that it is in a unique and distinctive sense the Word of God.
Many people hold the view that the Bible is a collection of ancient stories
about people's efforts to find God, a record of human experiences in their reaching
for God that led to a gradually improving idea of God by building on the experiences
of preceding generations. This means, of course, that the many, many passages
in the Bible in which it is said that God spoke are merely using a figure of
speech and that God did not really speak. Rather, people put their ideas into
religious language that claimed to be the language of God, and in reality it
was only what they themselves imagined God might say. This viewpoint reduces
the Bible to the level of other books. It is made into a human book pretending
to be divine, rather than a divine book.
We reject this view utterly, and with abhorrence! We believe that the Bible
is not an account of human efforts to find God, but rather an account of God's
effort to reveal Himself to humanity. It is God's own record of His dealings
with people in His unfolding revelation of Himself to the human race. The Bible
is the revealed will of the Creator of all of humanity, given to His creatures
by the Creator Himself, for instruction and guidance along life's paths.
There can be no question that the books of the Bible were composed by human
authors; we don't even know who some of these authors were. Nor do we know just
how God directed these authors to write. But we believe and know that God did
direct them and that these books therefore must be exactly what God wanted them
to be.
There is a difference between the Bible and all other books. Authors may pray
for God's help and guidance, and God does help and guide them. There are many
good books in the world that leave the unmistakable impression that God helped
the authors to write them. But even the most saintly authors would hardly presume
to claim for their books that God wrote them.
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