Bible Basics
The word Bible means this.
What is book/books?
According to 2 Timothy 3:16, all Scripture is described with this important phrase.
What is God-breathed?
True or False:
Every biblical writer wrote with exactly the same personality and writing style.
What is False?
There are this many books in the Old Testament.
What is 39?
Major Prophets are called "major" primarily because of this.
What is their books are generally longer?
Scripture means this.
What are writings?
This Person guided the human writers of Scripture.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
God used real human writers without taking away these two things that made their writing different from one another.
What are their personalities and writing styles?
Name any three of the five Old Testament divisions.
Any three of:
Minor Prophets are called "minor" primarily because of this.
What is their books are generally shorter?
Because the Bible contains the words God spoke and commanded people to write down, we call it this.
What is God's Word?
Biblical inspiration does NOT simply mean God gave people these.
What are good ideas?
God told this Old Testament writer what to write when giving him the Law.
Who is Moses?
These are the five divisions of the Old Testament.
What are Law, History, Poetry, Major Prophets, and Minor Prophets?
One is God's spokesman. The other is the message spoken through him. Name both terms.
What are prophet and prophecy?
Prophet = God's spokesman; one who speaks for God.
Prophecy = words spoken by God through men and may include prediction of future events.
The Bible contains this many total books.
What is 66?
Complete the definition:
Inspiration: God empowered men through the ______ ______ to speak and write His truth.
What is the Holy Spirit?
This Gospel writer investigated information and wrote down what others told him.
Who is Luke?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy belong to this Old Testament division.
What is the Law?
According to our lesson, people communicate in these two basic ways.
What are words and actions?
Explain why the Bible cab be called God's Word even though human beings physically wrote it.
God used human authors, guided by the Holy Spirit, to communicate His Word.
Give the complete definition of biblical inspiration that we've learned.
God empowered men through the Holy Spirit to speak and write His truth.
Some biblical writers were told exactly what to write, some wrote what they witnessed, and others investigated information. What remained the same despite those different methods?
The Holy Spirit guided them so that what they wrote was true / communicated what God intended.
Why do we divide the 39 Old Testament books into categories like Law, History, and Poetry?
They help us organize and understand the different kinds of books in the Old Testament.
God's ______ are summarized in the Bible, while God's ______ are ultimately revealed through Jesus Christ.
What are words and actions?