Word of God is living & active,exposes thought & intention

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Why it was written

The Apostle John tells us that the Bible was written so that we may know we have eternal life:

[ "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life"1 John 5:13 esv]

Why we should study it

Paul writes to Timothy explaining the need to study the Bible

[ "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth," 2 Timothy 2:15 esv]. If you are a child of God, you must practice your faith based on the knowledge of the word of God because piety without knowledge is empty religion, a form without the substance. You cannot be ashamed of the word of God, written or living if you are one who is approved, an Elect.

Why we should teach and preach the word

1. ["All Scripture is breathe out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work," 2 Timothy 3:16-17 esv]

2. ["I charge you in the presence of God and of Jesus Christ,who is to judge the living and the dead, and by appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry," 2 Timothy 4: 1-5 esv]

3. The books of the bible

i. Old Testament: 39 [written originally in Hebrew and Aramaic]

ii. New Testament: 27 [written originally in Greek]

iii. It took 40 Jewish men beginning with Moses writing the First Five Books of the Bible and ending with John writing Revelation, over 1200 years to write the 66 books of the Bible.

iv. 400 year gap between the Old and the New. To understand this gap read the books of the Maccabees which are not in the canon of Scripture. 

4. History of the Church

i. Pentecost to the Rapture

Acts 2:1-4 [32/33 A.D.]

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

5. Recommended books to purchase

i. Good study bibles 

ii. Church history in plain language by Bruce Shelley

6. For those of you who would want to have a deeper understanding of the Bible, I will suggest you study Hebrew and Greek to enable you translate the Bible for yourself so that no one can fool you with their ‘Hebrew’ and ‘Greek’ knowledge.

The Bible divides itself into three main sections: Creation, Fall and Redemption.

Creation [Genesis 1-2]

The first two chapters of Genesis cover God's creation of the heavens and the earth in six days. God created each day and filled it with his other creations. It is important to remember that before this Creation event there was no time or days or years or seasons. Because we are temporal, God inserted time, days, weeks, months, years and seasons for our benefit into his eternity. After the Millennium, there will be no more time. God is not constrained by time nor nature. 

Fall [Genesis 3]

The man and his wife, by the prompting of Satan, disobey God and as a result, sin with its attendant destructive consequences culminating in both physical and spiritual deaths, are ushered into the world. The man and his wife die an immediate spiritual death and are chased out of the Garden of Eden. They, like their descendants, us, eventually died physically as we will, until the Rapture.

Redemption [Genesis 3-Revelation]