Getting Better Acquainted With Your Bible

ISBN: 0960302611

Author: Shotwell, Berenice M.

Condition: New

Although this book has been sold throughout the world for over twenty-five years, it is not carried in most bookstores. GETTING BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR BIBLE is a thoughtful, comprehensive volume of 576 easy-to-read (8 1/2 by 11 inch) pages. It is not just a book about the Bible, it is a study of the Bible itself. It really challenges one to be a Bible student and appropriate Bible truthsto bring them into ones own experienceand to think about correlations of Scriptural studies that are innovative and exciting. For example: What are the questions Jesus asked? (p. 349) What are the parallels in the lives of Paul and Jesus? (p. 441) What are the mysteries of the New Testament? (p. 465) What ten ascending steps can be found in the life of Jesus and of the Christian? (p. 544). Some of the compelling aspects of this book are described below.Bible History: GETTING BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR BIBLE presents Bible history and the Messianic message of salvation in their continuity from Genesis to Revelation. It has no sectarian slant. It is noninterpretive and useful across nondenominational lines.Clarifying Overview: This well-rounded book provides a clarifying overview of Biblical history, theology, and literature. Of particular value are the many charts and diagrams, which make it easy to grasp the broad development of themes and the movement of major ideas through all of the sixty-six books of the Bible.Spiritual Values of the Bible: This study ties the sixty-six books of the Bible into one complete whole. It presents the Bible in a manner that enables the reader to appropriate its spiritual values for today. Included are comprehensive studies of the lives of Old Testament characters, the Book of Job, the lives of Jesus and Paul, the Apostles, the Church, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Apocalypse.Makes Bible Study Easy: The book's 12-page index makes what you are looking for easy to find. Its 81 illustrations and 12 maps make learning simple even for the beginning Bible student. This book provides answers for Sunday School classes. It makes daily Bible study more meaningful. PLUS, it saves hours and hours of research. Wonderful for individual or group study.Unique Style of Charts: Among the many unique features of this book are its unusual charts. They are carefully designed to be read upward from left to right, emphasizing the mounting unfoldment of the Bible. Besides the many single charts designed in this unique style, the whole Old Testament chronology is so presented (pp. 7391), for all Old Testament history is an upward-moving experience in preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The charts of the contents of the Apocalypse, too, are upwardly drawn (pp. 492, 495-505) to show its mounting revelation. Thus the book makes visualization, correlation, and appropriation of Scriptural subjects and spiritual truths easy for any reader through its ample use of charts. Examples of these charts are: Divisions and Books of the Old and New Testaments (pp. 13-24); Correlation-Old Testament Subjects (pp. 141-175); Correlation-Jesus (pp. 344373); Correlation-Paul (pp. 453-469); Appropriation of Scriptural Lessons (pp. 529-551).Berenice Shotwell devoted over 25 years to the preparation of GETTING BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR BIBLE. Because her writing was based on a lifetime of study and teaching, her book truly was a lifework for her. If you love the Bible and want to gain the most you can from study of the Bible, her book will encourage and assist you.