The Bible Essay

Conversations about the Bible include: “The Bible is God’s Love letter.” “Read the Bible like a respectable novel.” “The Bible is a narrative telling about God’s love.” “The Bible is a source of knowledge.” I’ve often wondered about the best way to describe the Bible. The Bible is all those things and more. Talking with my mom, she asked me what type of literature is the Bible? Granted, it is impossible to include them all, here are selected ones along with what they can teach. Narrative or…

Scriptural Response Three In this paper, I will write a scriptural response to the assigned reading of the NIV Study Bible and the Wiersbe Bible Commentary. I will write my response to Exodus and chapters twenty through twenty-eight of the Wiersbe Bible Commentary. Content Division The book of Exodus is broken up into different sections. The first is the oppression of Israel and the birth of Moses. During the time of the birth of Moses, Pharaoh saw that the Israelites numbers grew. He was…

The prophetic book takes its name after the prophet who received the vision. The name Obadiah means “servant of the LORD”. It is the smallest book in the Old Testament. There is no information about the author. Sanhedrin 39b (Talmud) said Obadiah was Ahab’s servant. Pseudo-Epiphanius said he was King Ahaziah’s military official (thus the book must have been written in 842 B.C.). John Calvin said he could have been an eyewitness to the destruction of Jerusalem which suggests that the book must…

intelligent with the new knowledge I have of thyself. It's pretty cool to learn about all these new things and know where I really come from. The Bible and the Christian religion is a lie because it's similar to the stories in Egypt stealing the African Culture, The Bible is only an allegory, not meant to take literally by the average human and The Bible/Religion was put in place to psychologically castrate black people. Throughout the years the rates of people going to church have been…

the earliest version of the flood story that appears later in the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis 6-9). Discuss how each version has very different emphases and draws a different moral. The Gilgamesh Epic is the oldest poem recognizable to humanity. To most scholars, it even predates the bible. The Epic was written on twelve tablets and to many communities it is the most inspiring poems of all time. The Bible and Gilgamesh share quite a number of stories. One of the stories is concerning…

about what the Bible says about homosexuality. Homosexuality in the Bible has been a topic with lots of puzzlement and unanswered questions for hundred of years. One of the biggest question about homosexuality in the Bible is how people should be interpreting it. There are points of views about finding out the true meaning of what the Bible says about homsexuality: 1) that everyone knows what the Bible/God said and the meaning of what he said can not be changed 2) we know what the Bible/God…

Mythology and the bible was someone who creation of the world. In the Bible. Just only one God who made everything in this world, and made in six days to complete. Conversely, the Classical Mythology has many Gods whom made the world. Such as Gaea, the Mother Earth; Uranus, the sky; Ourea, the mountains, and many other. On the creation the world of Classical Mythology. Before God created a man, God were created many gods for example the twelve Titans of Gaea and Uranus. The Bible, God created…

in the Bible. Homosexuality in the Bible has been a topic discussed by many scholars as well as Bible interpreters. The topic has become more and more relevant in the passing years as LGBT rights movements have gained support. With many people still rejecting homosexual relationships because of what the Testaments’ say about it, scholars have worked harder to understand what the Bible says about homosexuality. Scholars have also tried to understand the context of homosexuality in the Bible. The…

The most important obligation that Wycliffe spent his whole life to pursue was to get the Bible as well as its message into the language and the heart of people. After calling for secularization of English church property, he was accused as sacrilege because his writings had increased criticism in the church and threatened the powerful positions of the hierarchy. Even though he was forbidden to make any more further arguments on such matters, he continued his reforming attempts. One of his most…

insight into former civilizations. Unfortunately, though, this important research is often twisted to disprove the Bible. Whenever an artifact is found that seemingly contradicts the biblical record, skeptics rush to say that it proves that the Bible is fallible. But, does archaeology disagree with the Bible? The easy answer is no. Archaeological evidence almost always confirms what the Bible states. So, what would be some examples? One of the greatest examples lies in the flood recorded in the…