Welcome to the Adventure!

Your discovery of the Bible could be an adventure that lasts your whole lifetime! Sound ridiculous? Maybe, but there is an incredibly long line of people stretching for thousands of years who would insist it is true. Stop and think. Long, long before the world knew anything of television, radio, CDs, airplanes, automobiles, electricity, long before the world ever heard of Coca Cola, IBM, SONY, or microwave ovens, a book that later became known as "The Bible" was written that would be like none other. This book was even finished centuries before printing was available to mass produce books, and in those earlier centuries every copy of this book had to be done by hand. In every generation since it was written, it has been revered and looked to as a source of understanding our world, our humanity, our relationships, our reason for existence. Accept the possibility that the best things in our Western world, a world that slowly and painfully emerged from barbarism to an advanced civilization, emerged largely from the inspiration provided by the Bible. It played a central role in the formation of our culture. But now the flowers of that civilization, as someone put it, are cut off from the roots and are already beginning to wilt in the vase. Look at the solutions and cures that are typically offered. Do they give you much hope? Might it be that the way forward is to go back to the path we drifted from, to recover our roots, to rediscover the Bible?

What Kind of Book is This Anyway?

The Bible is often thought of as a "Holy Book." Various religions have their "Holy Books." Often these are reported as "revelations" coming through various means such as visions, dreams, hearing directly from God, or an angel. But the origin of the Bible is accounted for in a quite different way. The Bible is rooted and grounded in history. The Bible came from the experience of specific people, in identifiable places, at particular times. The Bible deals with the meaning of human life on this planet from within the stories of people who lived on this planet. So it is not a "Holy Book" in the sense of an otherworldly esoteric philosophy. It is "holy" in the sense that it represents the interaction of God and people in our world in the midst of everyday life.

What the Bible Deals With:

The basic questions we all face, such as...

What to think of ourselves

How to deal with guilt and fear

How we are to relate to nature

How we are to treat each other

How God reaches down to us

How we can find God

Welcome to the Adventure!

What Kind of Book is This Anyway?

What the Bible Deals With:

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Where to Begin (Studying the Bible)

A Personal Word from Ken Curtis, President of Christian History Institute

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