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The Bible Speaks to You

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“A book about the Bible” is likely to be a snare and a delusion.
People may get the idea that if you read “a book about the Bible” you don’t need to read the Bible itself. Actually, this is about as sensible as saying that you'd just as soon read about the President of the United States (or the National League batting champion) as meet him at first hand and watch him in action. Books about the Bible give you the Bible at second hand. And their sole purpose must be to push you toward the Bible, to make you pick it up and read it, and to give you enough information and hints so that when you do read it you won't give up the first time you begin to flounder in a sea of “begats.”
As we will see in the following pages, the Bible isn’t “just another book” with a lot of interesting information about God. It is a book in which people find God “coming alive,” making his way into their hearts and demanding that they do something about him. He's not a “safe” or “tame” God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant heaven; he has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want him; of confronting us in the strangest ways. And he usually turns out to be very different from the sort of God we would have invented for ourselves. We have to be prepared for surprises and unexpected news.

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220.6

Publisher

Philadelphia : The Westminster Press., 1946

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Hardcover, 320 hlm, 14.5x21.5 cm

Language

English

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220

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Subject(s)

Religion
The Bible
Interpretation and Criticism (Exegesis)

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