WHAT IS THE BIBLE?

The word bible means “book.” It comes from the Greek word biblios, which originated in the city of the Bylos. This city was the largest importer of papyrus in the ancient world. Therefore, it’s also the primary center for producing books. I would refer to the Bible as God’s Word, which stands above any books in history. Many Bibles were printed, distributed, and read in ancient times and throughout history. When Jesus was on earth in the New Testament, any word printed in red ink was His Word being spoken by Him.

However, I connote or imply the Bible is not a typical book. It’s the Hagios (means in Greek, “sacred” Biblios, the Holy Bible or “set apart.”The Bible is the most-read, best-selling, and most-translated book in history. It’s been translated and is available in many languages and dialects known today. I learned from what I read that it was written in three languages over 1600 years by people from all walks of life. However, most didn’t live in a similar period, though they all got part of the same story.

A unique group wrote the Bible of prophets, prisoners, poets, kings, soldiers, shepherds, priests, princes, historians, fishers, tax collectors, businesspeople, scholars, and physicians.

Moreover, it was written in different locations, such as caves, ships, palaces, deserts, and prisons. It also includes incredibly vulnerable and defenseless people for their difficulties and outcries from their hearts, especially when you read in Psalms and as history and personal letters from the epistles of Paul and other disciples.

The reason the Bible is such a remarkable book is that the Bible is God’s Word. Many people wonder whether the Bible is a book that God wrote. Of course, I even thought of myself. He didn’t write the Bible with His hand. However, He did something much better. He breathed the words into more than 40 trustworthy humans who wrote down His Word on their terms.

As you can see, that’s why we can see so much variety and translations in the Bible. History, poetry, prophecy, personal letters, and parables are written over sixteen hundred years—and it’s all His Word.

The Bible is such a remarkable book because the Bible is His Word as a mirror. However, they hear people question and wonder about His Word, stating it’s primarily made up of humans to make somehow God look good. He is a good and faithful God. How could a mere or specified human author write hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled 100 percent of the time? Besides, how could so many different authors be in accordance and consistent in their writing? How have they had a solid or profound effect on so many people for so long? The reason for all these questions and inquiries is Him.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 says, “And we also thank God continually because, when you received it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.”

The Bible is the World’s most fabulous manual instruction manual. We immersed ourselves in the Word of God. We familiarised ourselves with the contents, study themes, and detail, for some are anointing words that speak to you. Memorize your favorite parts and portions of the verses or scriptures related to your situation. You get to know the manual backward and forward, and you’ll get the potential out of your life because God wrote it for you or us in mind for our lives. If we have a new gadget, we try it immediately, for some are impatient to read the instruction manual. But skipping the instruction is a bad idea if we want to experience the full potential of your or our new gadget to work.

2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scriptures is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is discerned of the thoughts and intents of the heart-Hebrew 4:12                                            

THE BIBLE IS…

Is not my word like a fire? Faith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaker the rock in pieces-Jeremiah 23:29                                    

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save souls-James 1:21

But whoso looked into the perfect law of liberty, and continue therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed-James 1:21

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day John 12:4                                                         

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever-Peter 1:23                                            

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bud, that it may give seen to the sower, and bread the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent-Isaiah 55:10, 11                                                           

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which can to built you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified-Acts 20:32 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer-Psalm 17:4.

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