Lesson 7 – Introduction to the Bible

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways!

1. The Bible being the highest among all the classical writings
   1. The Bible Being the highest in its record.
   2. The Bible Being the highest in its wisdom and profoundness. ¹, ²
   3. The Bible Being the highest in its ethics and morality. ³
   4. The Bible Being the highest in its influence. ⁴, ⁵
2. The Bible being the holy word of God ⁶
3. The canon of the Bible
   1. The authors of the Bible and the places in which it was written
   2. The times when the Bible was written
   3. The recognition of the authority of the Bible
4. The New Testament and the Old Testament – the two covenants God made with man
   1. The old testament—a covenant which was added and abolished ⁷, ⁸
   2. The new testament—a covenant which is better and eternal ⁹,  ¹⁰, ¹¹

READING

Bible References:

1. And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 3:15)
2. O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways! (Romans 11:33)
3. And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke 10:27)
4. And the word of God grew, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem multiplied greatly; and a large number of the priests obeyed the faith. (Acts 6:7)
5. Now these people were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. (Acts 17:11)
6. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, (2 Tim. 3:16)
7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. (Hebrews 8:7, 9)
8. But their thoughts were hardened; for until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, it not being unveiled to them that the veil is being done away with in Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:14)
9. By so much Jesus has also become the surety of a better covenant. (Hebrews 7:22)
10. Similarly also the cup after they had dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant established in My blood; this do, as often as you drink it, unto the remembrance of Me. (1 Corinthians 11:25)
11. Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6)