The Bible the living word of God

The Bible the Living Word of God

it is the living Word of the Living God, supernatural in origin, divine in authorship, regenerative in power, infallible in authority, personal in application, inspired in its every part.

The Growth of the Bible -

The way in which the Bible grew is one of the mysteries of our time. Little by little, century after century, it came out in fragments, written by various men, without any concerted arrangement. One wrote a part in Arabia, another in Syria, a third in Palestine, another in Greece and Italy, and the first-part was written hundreds of years before the man who wrote the last part was born.

Here is a Book that took at least fifteen hundred years to write, spanning sixty generations of this world's history. It enlarges our conceptions of God and gives us new ideas of His infinite patience as He watched the strain, the haste and restlessness of man across the feverish years, while slowly the great Book grew. Here a little, and there a little, history, prophecy, poetry and biography, it came forth before a needy world in its finished completeness.

The Bible, though regarded as a Book, is in fact a library of sixty-six volumes, written by between thirty and forty different authors, in three languages, on totally different topics and in extraordinarily; different circumstances.

The Diversity of the Bible

One wrote history, another biography, one wrote on theology, another poetry, another prophecy, others on philosophy, jurisprudence, genealogy, ethnology, and narratives of wonderful journeys. Here in the Bible we have them all, in a little Book that a child can carry in its little hand.

The strangest thing of all is that, although their subjects are so diverse and difficult, and although it was impossible for the man who wrote the first pages to have the slightest knowledge what others would write 1500 years later yet this collection of writings is not only unified by men in one Book but so unified by God the Author, that we can never think of it today as anything else but one Book ! And one Book it is indeed — the miracle of all literary unity.

It changes men's lives and alters their destinies. It inaugurates world-wide movements. A single-text transformed Luther ,and launched the greatest of modern epochs. It comes today into communities of unrighteousness as a regenerating force.