TITLE OF BOOK: THE BIBLE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D.P Brook, editor, adult, section, Sunday School Department, Baptist School Board
This helpful book will enable the reader to enrich his bible study and to grow his ability to interpret and teach the bible. It will also give him a better understanding of the basic principles of biblical interpretation.
Eight chapters deal with the nature of the bible problem in understanding, and how to go about better interpretation and teaching.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- IN SEARCH OF THE TRUE PICTURE
- THE BARRIERS TO UNDERSTAND
- WHEN DO THESE WORDS REAL MEAN?
- UNLOCKING THE OLD TESTAMENT
- BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
- LEARN THE GROUND RULES
- EQUIPPING OUR SELVES FOR BIBLE STUDY
- ITS ALL ABOUT YOU
THE BOOK IS ALL ABOUT
The major emphasis in this book has been placed on mastering the skills essential to learning the bible for oneself. The greatest enemy of the bible is not the person attacks it and claim that is not really different from the other books. Rather, it is the person who sets the Bible upon on such a high pedestal and makes it so different that its humanity lost. God give us His revelation in written form, the Bible. God chose to communicate His word to man in a normal setting. The purpose to this book is to help you to see Biblical world as a real world, the biblical people as a real people, and the unfolding God’s redemptive work as something that happened in concrete human situation, human situations. Some super pious persons tend to deny both the humanity of Jesus and of the Bible. This removes both from the real of real life and places them.
In some “spiritual spare” putting Bible characters “out of this world” in a “never” never land. The Bible word “flesh” mean much more than it means in our common usage. It refers to the entire human beings, the person. The Bible records experiences of men in the midst of life. We can never graphs the message until we stop seeing biblical people as paper figures and come to see real people as they meet God respond His action. One of the most misunderstood words of the Bible is the word “soul” in its usage in our culture the word is used to describe “that eternal part of man which survives death”. We cannot understand Biblical people if we expect them to react according to the patterns of modern man. The story of Jesus is one of the growing conflict with the major groups in the Jewish establishment. Jesus came to declare an authoritative word about God and call men into direct encounter with Him. God is no absentee Lord, simply to get men into contact with the law. Jesus wanted to know God indirect encounter through Himself.
