BI- Book Review

1. Title of Book

What the Bible Is All About (An easy to understand survey of the Bible)
By Henrietta C. Mears
Billy Graham Crusade Edition


2. HENRIETTA C. MEARS (1891 - March 20, 1963)

From 1912-1914 she was a high school teacher in Beardsley, Minnesota and from 1915-1928 was a teacher and senior advisor at Central High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928 she became the Director of Christian Education at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California. Famous for her colorful hats and infectious laugh, she was also the teacher of the college department until her death in 1963. Under her leadership, the Sunday school grew from 450 to over 6,000. Because there was a lack of suitable Sunday school teaching materials, she and her staff wrote curriculum that encompassed children to adults, including Vacation Bible School programs. She was a prolific writer of materials and books, and as a result of the demand for the teaching materials, she founded Gospel Light Publications in 1933. She also founded the Forest Home Christian Conference Center in 1938, and co-founded GLINT - Gospel Literature International in 1961.

3. Table of Contents

(a) Maps: Bible land
(b) Understanding of the Bible
(c) Understanding of Old Testament (Genesis to Malachi)
(d) A Quick Look at the Old testament (Esther through Malachi)
(e) Understanding of the new Testament (Matthew to Revelation)
(f) A Quick look at the New testament (Matthew through Philippians)
(g) A Quick look at the New testament (Colossians through Revelation)
(h) Teaching suggestion
(i) Visual Teaching Aids
(j) Time Line (Genesis to Nehemiah)

4. What is the book all about?

The book I have read that mentions all about the Old Testament and New Testament (Genesis through Revelation). Which included principle characters, principle places, principle facts, principle periods, the story, history, and more interesting about the BIBLE? The Bible has a great tradition and a magnificent heritage. It contains 66 books written over a period of several hundred years by many different men. The Bible is old: yet it is ever new. The Old Testament we find the covenant of law. In the New Testament we fine the covenant of grace which comes through Jesus Christ. One led into the other (Galatians 3:17-25).

(a) The Old commences what the New completes
(b) The Old gathers around Sinai,
(c) The New around Cavalry.
(d) The is associated with Moses,
(e) The New is with Christ (John 1:17)

The authors were kings and princes, poets and philosophers, prophets and statesmen. The Bible is a dive revelation, a progressive revelation, a revelation of God to man communicated through men, moves on smoothly from its beginnings to its great end. The Bible history takes us back into the unknown past of eternity and its prophecies take us in the otherwise unknown future. The Old Testament is the foundation; the New Testament is the superstructure.

The Bible is one Book, one history, one story, His story. Behind 10,000 events stands God, the builder of history, the maker of ages. The Bible is one book, and you cannot take it in texts and expect to comprehend the magnificence of divine revelation. Another way we can study the Bible is by groups’ law, history, poetry, major and minor prophets, Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation. Each book has a message, and we should endeavor to discover what that message is.

The Bible is a whole and can’t be tampered with. To add anything to it or take anything from it would mar its absolute perfection (Rev. 22:18, 19).
God himself became a man so that we might know what to thinks of when we think of God. The Old Testament sets the stage for it. The New Testament describes it. Apart from any theory of Inspiration or any theory of how the Bible books came to their present form, or how much the text may have suffered in passing through the hands of editors and copyist.
The Bible, the greatest document available for human race, needs to be opened, read and believed.

References: www.ondoctrine.com/2mears.htm

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