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Brief Help in Reading The Bible: An Introduction
A short guide for students reading The Bible: An Introduction (third edition) by Jerry L. Sumney, a textbook that treats Scripture as only human thought that developed over time. It lists nine ways the textbook takes a skeptic’s view, answers specific statements page by page, and points to realities such as fulfilled prophecy, archaeology and the resurrection. Suggested resources at the end should help “build your confidence in the Bible as being from God Himself.”
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What’s inside
- Nine ways the textbook takes a skeptic’s view of Scripture
- Responses to textbook statements, with page numbers
- Moses, Daniel and Jonah as Jesus saw them (John 5:46; Matthew 24:15; Luke 11:29–32)
- Fulfilled prophecy of Messiah (Micah 5:2; Daniel 9:25–26; Isaiah 53)
- Realities that show the Scriptures are divine
- Suggested resources on archaeology, the canon and claimed contradictions