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inaccessible by any
natural means.
Ronald Reagan of
the United States
proclaimed 1983
"The Year of the
Bible." To religious
leaders this was an
opportunity to focus
the eyes of the
nation on the book
of t he year.
Yet how many
people who have even
read the Bible
entirely from Genesis
to Revelation really
understand what it
says?
What a paradox it is
that the Bible is
consistently the
best-sellcr every year
with millions of copies
BOOK
OF
THE
YEAR
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Without the Bible we
could never understand
the lessons of the past,
the meaning of the
present and the purpose
of Ji fe.
Mueh of the Bible is a
record of what has
happened when God's
great Iaw of love has been
violated- both
individually and
nationaHy. God intended
that we should learn
from the record
contained in t he Bible. l f
humanity would 1earn
from biblical history, we
would not continue to
make the same mistakes
and suffer from the same
results.
Speaking of historical
events recorded in t he
Bible, the apostle Paul
stated: " It all happened
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or portions printed and
distributed throughout
the world in more than
1,400 different
languages- yet so few
understand it!
by
Robert Boraker
warning
for others, and it
was written down for the
purpose of instructing us
whose lot has been cast
Read how this important book
can change your life.
in the closing hours of
the world" (1 Cor. 10:11,
To many, the Bible
has become dull, dry
history of the ancient past- having nothing to do
with today's modern space age. Yet no other book is
as up-to-date as the Bible.
The Bible was written for our day- this
generation. It predicted today's chaotic world
conditions in which destructive forces threaten to
extinguish the human race. But it also reveals what
will be done to prevent world self-an nihilation.
Bruce Barton called the Bible "the book nobody
knows." Yet in its pages are revealed the causes of
today's ills-the social problems, the economic
problems, international problems.
The Bible shows where world events are Ieading
and what the final outcome will be. In the prophetic
books of lsaiah , J eremiah , Ezekiel, Daniel and
Revelation we are given a skeletal framework of past
and future events.
The Bible is the written revelation of the Creator God
for mankind.
It
contains absolutely vital knowledge tbat
everyone needs to understand- but which would be
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And: " For whatever
things were written befare were written for our learning,
that we through the patience and comfort of the
Scriptures might have hope" ( Rom. 15:4, RAV).
God has Iaid bare the lives of those with whom he has
worked over the centuries so that t hose who read and
study the Bible might Iearn and avoid mistakes similar
to those made in the past. The Bible contains the most
meaningful case histories of human behavior ever
recorded.
A Unique Book
The Bible is notan ordinary book. It is unique in that it
contains
revealed
knowledge from the Creator of the
universe. The Bible is the written word of God in print.
It is the "Maker 's Instruction Manual" to explain how
the human creation is to be operated . I t explains why
the Creator put human beings on earth. It instructs us
how to live.
Human behavior cannot be correctly interpreted
apart from the Bible. Why does evil exist? What is sin?
The
PLAIN TRUTH