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HOW TO MASTER THE BIBLE CHAPTER 2--HOW TO ENJOY THE BIBLE Hunger is the best sauce. The Bible is the meeting point of many interests, intellectual, scientific, antiquarian, emotional, artistic, -literary, moral, and spiritual. It touches us on every side. It sounds the deepest depths of human sorrow. It lifts us up to the noblest heights of human exaltation. But the leading interest of the Book is spiritual. It is not easy to enlist the interest and the sympathy of the man who has no appetite for the things of God in a course of Bible Study. The chief cause...

HOW TO MASTER THE BIBLE CHAPTER 1--HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE THE Bible is a plain, honest, straightforward, simple Book. It is easy to read and easy to understand. It needs no learned introduction, no expert scholarship to enable us to grasp its meaning. It was written for the people and it has not missed its mark. It is a people's Book; therefore a classic. It is an exhaustive, work; therefore a standard. It readily discloses its secret to men of pure heart and simple faith, whether college-trained or unacquainted with the learning of the schools. The primary requisite of...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The question of the age of the earth has produced heated discussions on debate boards, classrooms, TV, radio, and in many churches, Christian colleges, and seminaries. The primary sides are: *Young earth proponents (biblical age of the earth and universe of about 6,000 years)1 *Old earth proponents (secular age of the earth of about 4.5 billion years and a universe about 14 billion years old)2 The difference is immense! Let’s give a little history of where these two basic calculations came from and which worldview is more reasonable...