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Description of the holy bible – Part 1

By Emeritus Prof. Mercy Olumide
28 October 2018   |   3:33 am
The Holy Bible is the ultimate authority for Christian faith and practice. Christianity is not just an ethical system. There is a context and that context is God Himself, Whose Spirit is breathing within the pages of the Bible.

Emeritus Prof. Mercy Olumide

The Holy Bible is also called THE WORD OF GOD or SCRIPTURE (S).The Bible is by far the world’s bestselling book. This much-quoted fact will be familiar to many, but has familiarity made us numb to what it really means? Sales of the Bible are estimated in billions, while its closest rival in mere millions. It continues to be the bestselling book of the year, every year. A large percentage of homes own at least one version.

The Bible has shaped and changed the course of individual lives. Men and women have died for this book or been imprisoned for possessing a copy. Numerous authorities have tried to ban it. Some godless people have burnt it. The Bible has provided the divine blueprint for living, given several thousand years ago by the God of life Himself. It has also shaped nations. It has been the foundation for government policies and has provided the platform for legal and judicial systems, which people of all faiths and none recognise as fundamental to civilisation and community living. Yet, despite all this, we live in a time of great ignorance about the Bible: its Author, history, context, and content.

The Holy Bible is the ultimate authority for Christian faith and practice. Christianity is not just an ethical system. There is a context and that context is God Himself, Whose Spirit is breathing within the pages of the Bible. The Bible is a living book, written by the Author of life Himself, Who has saved us from something before we can be saved for something. The principles in the Bible are to be lived out in the context of a relationship with God and those around us.

Like the earth itself, human life, human glory and human achievements (such as culture, science and philosophy) are temporary and pass away. But God’s Word abides forever. All endeavours and prevailing spirit of the world must constantly be judged by the Bible, rather than the Bible judged by them. The moral absolutes of God’s Word will stand long after today’s relativism has collapsed in self-destruction. Those who bend the Word of God to conform to the intellectual and moral trends of their generation betray “the word of God, which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23) and will be judged by it at the last day (John 12:48). The Bible is not like an academic tome that constantly has to be rewritten to keep up with modern research. The Bible contains eternal truth—not something that varies with each passing generation.

The highest knowledge to which men and women can attain is a personal knowledge of God. The Holy Bible is God’s One and Only published Work. The Bible is a whole library in one book. It is a collection of 66 Books in one bound volume. It is the work of more than 40 inspired authors, who wrote over a span of more than fifteen hundred years in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek) on three continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe), yet it deals with one theme: how sinful humanity can know the one true God as revealed by Himself and be reconciled to a holy God.

Over the next several weeks, we shall jointly explore the awesome sublime truth about the Bible, so that we shall all be joint heirs of the culmination of God’s purpose in creation: “He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God” (Revelation 21:3)
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