Because God uses the medium of language to reveal His will to man, divine revelation is capable of being written down. Yet, as we already have seen, the Bible is the result of God’s revealing truth to us through the work of the Holy Spirit, who transmits and safeguards His message through human instruments. This … Continue reading –>
Read 2 Peter 1:19-21. How does Peter express his conviction about the origin of the biblical prophetic message? The Bible is not like any other book. According to the apostle Peter, the prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit in such a way that the content of their message came from God. They did not invent … Continue reading –>
Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: 2 Pet. 1:19-21; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Deut. 18:18; Exod. 17:14; John 1:14; Heb. 11:3, Heb. 11:6. Memory Text: “For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the … Continue reading –>
Were you ever told that we only use 10% of our brain? I remember being told growing up that we only use 10% of our brain, but Einstein used 33% of his brain. I am not sure if this information was passed on to us as a way to encourage us to think harder in … Continue reading –>
Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, “The Scriptures a Safeguard”, pages 593-602 in The Great Controversy; “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”, pages 662-680 in The Desire of Ages. Many have died for upholding and remaining faithful to the Word of God. One such man was Dr. Rowland Taylor, an English Parish minister, who resisted the imposition of the … Continue reading –>
Read 2 Kings 22:3-20. What causes King Josiah to tear his clothes? How does his discovery change not only him, but the entire nation of Judah? In 621 B.C., when Josiah was about 25 years old, Hilkiah, the high priest, discovered “the book of the law”, which may have been the first five books of Moses … Continue reading –>
The Bible is unique when compared to other “holy” books because it is constituted in history. This means that the Bible is not merely the philosophical thoughts of a human being (like Confucius or Buddha), but it records God’s acts in history as they progress toward a specific goal. In the case of the Bible, … Continue reading –>
Welcome to the Bible! Every day people around the world open the Bible and read God’s word. As a reader of this brief introduction to a study of the Bible, you are joining Bible readers everywhere. But what a difference there is in how the Bible is read and how it becomes part of a person’s life, … Continue reading –>
The Bible is unique among other known religious works because up to 30 percent of its content is comprised of prophecies and prophetic literature. The integration of prophecy and its fulfillment in time is central to the biblical worldview, for the God who acts in history also knows the future and has revealed it to … Continue reading –>
To have a hymn for a theme this Second Quarter of 2020, would see not just one, but many from which to choose. Here are just two, the first being: Hymn 272, Give Me the Bible, followed by Hymn 277, For Your Holy Book We Thank You. Sabbath afternoon’s reading reminds us that the Bible … Continue reading –>
