The Bible Thumper

Have you stopped by the Bible study blog? Here’s a sample from the first entry:

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The Bible is nothing less than the entire history of mankind told from God’s spiritual perspective. Other history books focus on man’s progress, the rise and fall of civilizations, countries and their governments, cultural advances, warfare and conquest. Though the Bible is historical and contains much useful information on the ancient Middle East, its ultimate focus is God and His workings.

While the sixty-six documents that comprise the Bible may often seem disparate in their subject matter, in reality they all contribute to one big picture. That picture is of God’s creating a dominion to rule over, Satan’s attempts to usurp God’s authority in that dominion and lead a rebellion, the on-going spiritual war between God’s subjects and Satan’s subjects, God’s final conquering and defeat of all opponents, and God’s handing of the universe over to His Son Jesus Christ as an inheritance.

A look at the organization of the Bible reveals two major sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament. Without spending pages explaining this, basically the Old Testament is the history of man’s fall away from God, and the New Testament is the record of God’s rescue of man. This is definitely a layman’s simplification, but my purpose here is simply to introduce the framework of the Bible so that my study in Genesis has a basic context.

The book of Genesis, then, is the beginning of the spiritual history of the universe. It is the first book of the Old Testament, and the first book of the Pentateuch, a grouping of five books that detail the early history of the Israeli people, the Jews. The book is assumed to be penned by Moses, though who exactly put the words on parchment can never be proven and ultimately doesn’t matter; the message came from God (II Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 1:1, 2) and He has preserved the message through history for us today. So let’s get into it.

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For my own discipline in building regular habits, my goal is to have new entries every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Stop on by, read, discuss, enjoy.