How Much Do You Know About God's Word - The Bible Part 1

How Much Do You Know About God's Word - The Bible Part 1 is the first in our General Introduction to the Bible. In the How much do you know about God’s Word—the Bible? series, James Gravelle examines this book of books. The one subject on which no one should ever be ignorant is the Bible. After all, it is the only book in the world that accurately answers the three important questions that humans have always pondered: “Whence have I come?,” “Why am I here?,” and “Where am I going?”

The Bible was written by more than forty different men from various walks of life. Furthermore, these men wrote from al-most every conceivable human condition. The writers penned the Bible over a period of time that spanned approximately sixteen centuries (1500 B.C. to A.D. 100). In so doing, those writers covered topics as diverse as theology, eschatology, psychology, geography, history, medicine, and many others.

All this being true, one might expect that so diverse a group of men, writing on so varied a group of themes, over such a lengthy span of time, would have produced a book that would be a tangled mishmash of subjects more often than not marred by an incredible number of inconsistencies, errors, and incongruities. Yet the Bible exhibits such astounding harmony, such consistent flow, and such unparalleled unity that it defies any purely naturalistic explanation.

Even though the various books of the Bible were written by different men with different training, and who lived in different eras, each book complements the others by presenting a single unified theme.

From Genesis to Revelation there is a marvelous unfolding of the general theme of man’s fall from his holy status before God, God’s plan for man’s redemption (as carefully worked out across the centuries), the sinless life and atoning death of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate victory of the Christian system. In essence, the Bible is the story of one problem—sin—with one solution, Jesus Christ.

This kind of unity attests to the fact that there was a Superintending Intelligence behind it. So many writers, over so many years, covering so many themes, simply could not have been so harmonious by accident.

In the HMDYK series, we will be exploring "The Bible's Inspiration," "Proofs of the Bible's Inspiration," the three dispensations, "The Blessings of the Bible," and so much more.