ࡱ> @B?@ bjbjFF 24,,  8 D< d d d d d d d d $R`= d d =d d R Rd d  d X ]$I + h06668d 0 "  d d d == R Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Bible Student Date Fill in the blanks as we study the lesson 1. Many people have a Bible at , but they dont really know what it says. Its a book, and when you first start to read it, it can be confusing. We want to understand the Bible, because it is a message from God to every one of us. It is a book that you can reading over and over, all your life. In these lessons, we are going to learn just the facts about the Bible. When you know some foundational truths about the Bible, the rest of it becomes more . 2. The goal of our study is to know . He really wants us to know Him. Thats why He gave us the Bible. He is the character of the Bible, so He will be the main focus of our study. As we study, we will learn Who He , what He , and what He is . 3. We will study the Bible in chronological . It is not just a book about religion, it is an interesting historical , as seen from the eyes of God. As we study the Bible, we will travel through all of from the very beginning. Little by little, we will learn what says about Himself, Satan, and the human race. You may already know something about the in the Bible, but you may not know how they together. Chronological study will help you put all the important facts in their proper , so you will understand the whole story more clearly. 4. We will start our study at the very of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. That is the foundational book of the Bible. When you a house, you start with a good , then you build the rest of the house one piece at a time. We will our understanding of the Bible in the same way. Try to come to every lesson. Everything we learn will fit to build a solid understanding of Gods book. 5. We wont have time in these lessons to study in the Bible, but we will learn the truths that will help us to understand the rest. We will not let ourselves get distracted by controversial . We will concentrate on the , for that is the best way to find the truth about everything else. 6. The Bible is a collection of books, but it all fits together as one book with chapters. There are two parts of the Bible, the Testament (39 books) and the Testament (27 books). Each book is divided into , which are divided into . Bible verses are written like this: first we write the name of the , then the number of the , then a , then the number of the . Every Bible verse is important, but especially important verses are called verses. 7. The Bible is the most and unique book in the world, because it is the word of God. The Author of the Bible is . He gave us the Bible over a period of years, using about different men, who were called prophets. God accurately gave them His . Sometimes they Him. Sometimes they talked with Him in . Sometimes He simply put the words into their . The words of the Bible are not mens words, they are words. Although many different men wrote the different books of the Bible over a period of many years, the Bible is book. This is because the Author of the Bible is Himself. (2Pet. 1:20-21) 8. Almost all of the prophets whom God used to write the Bible were . We might say that Israel was like the that announced the word of God to the whole world. The original texts of the Bible were written in one of three languages: , Aramaic, or . Since the original documents fell apart with time and use, new were made. Copying was done with extraordinary . The Jewish scribes who copied the Bible made careful counts of the exact of words and letters on a page. They even had a mathematical method to add up the of every letter in every line on a page. If a copied page had even mistake, it was destroyed. God himself promised to His word forever. (Ps. 12:6-7) The Bible has been translated, completely or in parts, into more than languages! The Bible came to us by inspiration, preservation, and translation. 9. The Bible is completely , without any mistakes. ALL archeological and historic findings that have something to do with the Bible support the of the Bible. It has withstood the test of . Other books have to be changed, because they are written by , and have errors. The Bible has never , and never will change, because the Author is . (Ps.119:89) 10. Many people write books God, but the Bible is the only book that is written God Himself. It is the authority. It will never go out of , because God wrote it to all people in all ages. It reveals the absolute about God, shows us the path to eternal , and explains the eternal problems of and . God wants us to what the Bible says. It is very important to take some to study the Bible. If you study it properly, you will learn to know Himself. 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