The Bible Essay

evening service. I decide that I would go to the morning service on Sunday, February 15. The scared book used at this church was the Holy Bible. However, there are different versions of the Holy Bible. During the service, I noticed that the preacher kept making reference to the King James Version (KJV). He also made it clear that the King James Version was the only bible that should be used. The book was used in nearly all of the service. The service would start with music, then transition into…

didn’t know that people lost their lives in order for the Bible to be published. There is a lot in the Bible that we don’t know but taking time will do your life good. Here are some things that I want to share with you. The fascinating story of how we got the Bible in its present state started thousands of years ago. A man by the name of John Wycliff (His last name can be spelled like Wycliffe) produced the first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts in 1380 A.D. He was an Oxford…

roughly to the present day Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, and Israel and was also known as Phoenicia” (www.ancient.eu). According to the Bible the land was named after a man known as Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Genesis 10). The Canaanites developed the first alphabetic writing system and were known for their ship building and navigating the sea (www.ancient.eu). According to the Bible in the Book of Exodus, Moses led his people out of slavery in Egypt and toward the “promised land” of Cannon where…

theology from the Reformation to modern times. His main insight, in the article covers the Reformation and The Critical Enterprise, is that, though the reformers freed the Bible from being read only under the teaching of Roman Catholic tradition, their ideas quickly hardened into theological systems and dogmas under which the Bible was read. The same became true of the various critical methods. One cannot fully escape one’s beliefs and traditions as one conveys one’s theology. The "rescue of…

against them and attempt to take over (Ex. 1:6-11). The historicity of the Exodus is debated because people lack faith in what is clearly stated in the Bible. Also, they claim that the evidence that has been found is just circumstantial. The Exodus is not just a fictional story, it is a factual event that took place. It is referenced in the Bible in both the Old Testament and…

There seems to be more similarities between the Bible and other primary sources than there seems to be between the Bible and the film. The film of Noah depicts the story in a dark, twisted and mysterious way. The movie starts off with a basic summary of how evil came into the world. It shows a young Noah receiving a birthright passed…

Samantha Pritchard Mrs. Weathers ENG 101 B80 29 September 2015 “Jesus Freak” or Jesus Fake “Christian” is a common label in today’s society. Christians are supposedly people who believe the Truth of the Bible and accept the salvation that Jesus Christ offers. In 2012, the Pew Research Center performed a demographic study on “The Global Religious Landscape” that shows that Christians makes up 31.5 percent of the global population (“Global Religious Diversity”). While that percentage means 2.2…

states the Bible is God’s self-revelation and its best interpreter with the guidance of the Holy Spirit…

reading that I found most interesting is how fluid the translation and canonization of the Bible is. Starting with…

The Bible is one of the all time best sellers. Some people have a very deep knowledge and understanding of the words written upon its pages. Some have a “nodding acquaintance” (Gomes), much like the Christmas and Easter church attendance protocol many people practice. And then some have a tentative curious relationship with the Good Book. One wants to know more, but the language seems too confusing or the parables too difficult to understand. Reverend Peter Gomes addresses this lack of…