Facts
about the Bible
Lesson
VII
More
about Interpretation - I
May 17, 2009
I I have learned that Bible history is linked history
This is not difficult to prove.
When one sees this fact one learns
that to reject part is to reject all. To
accept part is to accept all. There is
no middle ground.
Example: one
Genesis 50:26 in
Exodus 1:1 the verse does not make sense without the book of Genesis
Leviticus
1:1
begins with the word “and” linked with what has gone before
Numbers 1:1 what a link
One cannot understand Numbers
without Leviticus, Leviticus without Exodus nor Exodus without Genesis.(This can be followed through all Bible history))
Example two
The record of “
Exodus
14:30-31
to Hebrews 8:9.
From Exodus to the end of
Deuteronomy it is referred to 90 times. In Joshua 10 times, Judges 9 times, 1
Samuel 9 times, 2 Samuel 2 times, 1 Kings 5 times, 2 Kings 2 times,1 Chronicles
2 times, 2 Chronicles to chapter 8, 3 times.
(This is where I am in my daily Bible reading) See also Psalm
106:7-11
The point is this: if one cannot believe the record in Exodus
one cannot really believe the rest of the Bible.
II I have learned that Bible history is literal history
1 Corinthians
10:1-11 these things happened
Luke 2:1-7 is this not literal history?
John 5:46-47
to deny one is to deny the other
A young preacher said to me in the
late 1940’s: “we know that Moses never
wrote a letter to his grandmother. We spent six months in seminary discovering
who wrote Genesis”
Exodus 24:4 Moses
wrote
Deuteronomy 27:8 Moses wrote
Deuteronomy 31: 9,19,22,24,
I have learned that history must be
literal or it ceases to be history.
III I have learned that Bible history is really about life
In the Bible we have
“case-histories” of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, David, Job.
All the kings, the priests and the prophets in the Old Testament
James 5:17 all were “men of like passions”
Strange, that as they were then men are much the same now. Evolution
does not seem to fit the records of human history!