Bible Basics
The story of the bible
6 genres of the bible
History: Book of acts, History of the early church. History of events, people and places.
Poetry: Poetry is used in the book of Psalms. Poetry is used in metaphors and similes.
Gospels: There are 4 Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Like and John. They each tell the story of Jesus.
Prophecy: There are 12 prophetic books in the Old Testament and 1 prophetic book in the New Testament. The books sometimes predict the future, they speak for God and they criticizes evil.
Epistle: The book of Paul and Romans. The books were written to people or churches.
How the bible came to be
Adam
Eve
Noah
Feature of a Study Bible
- There are illustrations of locations and artifacts.
- There are introductions and historical notes for each book of the bible.
- There are references or cross-references, to indicate where one passage of the text relates to other.
- There is a concordance, which is a word index that indicates where various keywords are used in the bible etc.