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Contents 1 What is truth? 2 Read the Bible! 3 What is the Bible? 3.1 An instruction manual 4 Topics 4.1 God loves you! 5 An outline 6 Bibles available online 6.1 Greek: 7 Translations of the Bible 8 Bible Commentaries 8.1 IVP New Testament Commentaries

The Bible  edit   (Category  edit) .

Subpages:

• Questions about the Bible
• Why study the Bible?
• How to study the Bible
• Can we really hope to understand the Bible?
• The Bible can be trusted!
• Was the Bible written by God or by man?
• What the Bible says about atheism

[edit] What is truth?

"'What is truth?' Pilate asked." John 18:37-38 (NIV)

[edit] Read the Bible!

Acts 17:11 (NIV)

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

(The Bereans lived in the ancient city of Berea in Macedonia. When the Apostle Paul encountered them he found that they “searched the Scriptures daily” and were believers in the Word. [1])

• http://www.biblegateway.com/
• How to study the Bible
• Other ways to read the Bible online

[edit] What is the Bible?

[edit] An instruction manual

Discovering the Word: The Ultimate Resource, Part 2:

Someone said that “Bible” is an acronym for Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Sure, it’s a cliché, but the Bible is the operating manual given to us by your Creator, and many of us are having serious life-management problems because we’re ignoring the basic instructions. Too many people are struggling in their personal lives, and they’re being overcome because they are neglecting time in the Word.

Men are renowned for getting into trouble because they don’t read the instructions or take time to ask for directions. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve discovered that you can save a lot of time and money simply by reading manuals. The people who made the bicycle know how to quickly assemble their product and operate it safely. It makes practical sense to read their instructions.

[edit] Topics

[edit] God loves you!

“"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 (NIV)

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” -- Romans 8:35,37 (NIV)

“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us… God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -- Romans 5:5,8 (NIV)

[edit] An outline

[edit] Bibles available online

(So that you can study it...)

[Comparisons (category)]

• http://www.biblegateway.com/
• http://www.bibles.net/
• KJV
  • http://www.genesis.net.au/~bible/kjv/index/
• Parallel Bibles
  • Unbound Bible [has Greek][Can't link directly to a text; uses post rather than get]
  • Scripturetext.com -- Online Multilingual Bible
• http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp The SWORD Project- Free Bible Software from the OpenSource Community for Christian Education and Evangelism

[edit] Greek:

http://www.greekbible.com/index.php [Can't link directly to a text; uses post rather than get] (...Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland 26th edition © 1979, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart; The Greek New Testament, 3rd edition © 1975, United Bible Societies, London [2] )

http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/biblegreek/?id=22&book=1John&chapter=3 (...The Greek New Testament displayed is the authorized 1904 text of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Patriarchal text has been made available courtesy of the Greek Bible society and was digitized in XML in cooperation with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Internet Ministries, the Greek BIble Society and the American BIble Society IT Department's OSIS project. )

[edit] Translations of the Bible

("There are so many translations out there? Which one should I read?!")

Revelation 22:18-19 (NIV)

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

• Amazing Facts - The Faithful Witness
  • "... Each version has strong points and weak points. No version is perfect. But this does not mean that our choice of a study Bible is not important. The Bible is God’s chosen medium of communicating with man, and we should use the best version we can find for studying the deep truths of His Word. But which version is most reliable and how can we identify it? ..."
• http://www.chick.com/information/bibleversions/comparison.asp -- It shows how many words are missing from the New International Version or have been moved to the footnotes.
• http://www.google.com/search?q=remove+words+from+bible
• http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/nivdelet.htm Which Bible verses did the NIV delete?
• http://www.anointedlinks.com/cgi-bin/clickit/tk.cgi?niv Why I use the NIV Bible
• http://www.av1611.org/kjv/counterfeit.html How to Spot A Counterfeit Bible

[edit] Bible Commentaries

[edit] IVP New Testament Commentaries

http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/?action=getCommentaryInfo&source=0

Each volume, informed by the best of up-to-date evangelical scholarship, presents passage-by-passage commentary based on the NIV along with background information on authorship, setting, theme and various interpretive issues.