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    Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible
    Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible
    Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible
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    Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible

    By James E. Ball

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    I wrote this book to help people like myself, who may have tried to understand the Bible or have been intimidated by it. In the beginning of my study of the Bible, I spent hours trying to get the hang of it. I got lost reading long lists of names I couldnt even figure out how to pronounce. The book of Leviticus contained lists of rules and regulations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJul 3, 2013
    ISBN9781466997011
    Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible
    Author

    James E. Ball

    For years, Jim desired to know God’s Word better, but he couldn’t find a way to get past being intimidated by it all. Finally, while teaching Bible classes and listening to his students who had the same problem as he did, he discovered that it was a basic problem of not understanding the Bible’s structure. That issue solved, he quickly made up for lost time and used his students’ questions to form the backbone of the book you hold in your hand. By profession, he was masterful when it came to any technical computer problem, but his passion was his love for the Lord and His Word! His book is being published posthumously. He went to his heavenly home on November 26, 2004. You can read more about him in Season of Hope, our book being released summer of 2013.

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      Quick Start User's Guide for the Bible - James E. Ball

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      James E. Ball

      Order this book online at www.trafford.com

      or email orders@trafford.com

      Most Trafford titles are also available at major online book retailers.

      © Copyright 2013, 2014 James E. Ball.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society.

      Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. Copyright (C) 1995,1996 by James E. Ball

      isbn: 978-1-4669-9700-4 (sc)

      isbn: 978-1-4669-9702-8 (hc)

      isbn: 978-1-4669-9701-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013909810

      Trafford rev. 03/18/2014

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      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      fax: 812 355 4082

      Contents

      How do you eat an elephant?

      Questions, do you have questions?

      First Some Trivia

      Where did the Bible come from?

      What is the difference between the Old and New Testament?

      How long did it take to write?

      Who wrote it?

      How was it saved all of this time?

      Is the Bible Historically Accurate? How reliable is the evidence to support it?

      How did they decide what books went into the Bible?

      Was there really a worldwide flood?

      Who were the Disciples and What happened to them?

      What was Iran called in the Old Testament?

      What about women?

      Can a camel pass through the eye of a needle?

      Do I really need to read the Bible?

      The Bible looks awfully complicated. Can’t it be simplified, or how do I put my fears aside?

      What will I accomplish by

      studying the Bible?

      I keep hearing about different translations. What are they?

      If the Bible comes from God, why can’t we agree on the correct version?

      Old Testament

      What about prophecy? How do I know what to trust?

      How do you eat an elephant?

      There is an old question that goes something like this:

      Question: How do you eat an elephant?

      Answer: One bite at a time.

      The Quick Start Users Guide for the Bible will help with the Bible one bite at a time. In the computer software industry, quick start manuals are very popular. Few people actually read the instruction manuals that come with the software. Give them a quick-start guide and they’re off and running, using the software without having to read the whole software manual. It’s a manual for a manual.

      When more detail is needed, they can refer to the manual. The Quick Start Users Guide for the Bible works like that, designed to help you understand the Bible without having to read the whole Bible.

      This Quick Start guide is organized around a series of questions that real people, just like you and I, have asked from time to time.

      The questions form the table of contents for the book, so you can jump around reading whatever interests you at that time.

      As with most Quick Start manuals and guides, it is not a replacement for actually reading the Bible, just a device to help you get started with reading and studying it.

      It is my desire that you get to know what the Bible has to say. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised as you browse.

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      Questions, do you have questions?

      I wrote this book to help people, like myself, who may have tried to understand the Bible, or have been intimidated by it. In the beginning of my study of the Bible, I spent hours trying to get the hang of it. I got lost reading long lists of names I couldn’t even figure out how to pronounce. The book of Leviticus contained lists of rules and regulations. Were they for me?

      How could I ever learn what the Bible was saying? I did not want to skip here and there in reading… what to do?

      Without some guidance I was lost. What were the rules for reading the Bible? Were there any? So, for a long time I gave up and set the Bible back on the bookshelf. Time and again I picked up the Bible and started over again. Finally, after years of going through this process, I got the message, and my life has not been the same since. It was my lack of understanding of how the Bible is organized that kept me from understanding it. The problem was that there just wasn’t anything written in a simple, easy to read format outlining the Bible. So, I decided to write this book.

      With this book you will learn the structure, organization, and story of the Bible. Getting a handle on these elements, it will be easier to understand what the Bible is saying.

      First Some Trivia

      Is this a Biblical saying?

      God helps those who help themselves.

      Even though it is a popular belief, God helps those who help themselves, is not in the Bible. Not only that, but the saying is contrary to what the Bible teaches. In the Bible, God reaches down to save helpless man. Man can do nothing to help himself where salvation is concerned. We are also instructed to take all of our circumstances to God and petition Him for the answers.

      Joshua, or Jesus?

      What is the difference between these names? The answer is that they are actually the same name. The difference is the way the translators handled the name in Hebrew and Greek. In the Old Testament it’s Joshua and in the New Testament it’s Jesus.

      The definition below is from Strong’s Concordance. The name Jesus is the transliteration of the Greek translation. 2424. Iesous, ee-ay-sooce’;

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