Bible Truth
In This Book You Will Find -
1. The most important questions.
These are the questions for which you must have the answers
if you want to know yourself, your God, and a life of glory.
2. The answers to your questions.
These are not the answers of learned men but the answers
God gives us.
The "Daily Readings" are a selection of the richest doctrinal
statements on each lesson. If you have any time to spare in
class, use it for a Bible study of these readings.
3. Accurate Bible quotations.
Many years of hard study of the manuscripts and of the Bible
text are behind these quotations from Beck's translation of the
Bible.
Dr. Beck asked the question: What does God want in a Bible
translation? The first answer, which every Christian knows, is
that God wants us to have an accurate Bible. It should be more
accurate than the translations of today. From such a fresh
translation, absolutely loyal to the manuscripts and the original
text, come the passages in this book. You can trust them.
On each topic we can gather a mass of Bible quotations not
all of which are equally clear and direct in answering our questions.
Many hundreds of Bible statements were examined most
thoroughly to select those that will help you most effectively.
4. God is speaking your language.
There's a second answer to the question: What does God want
in a Bible translation? God wants to talk to our hearts. Dr. Beck
has put his life into the job of giving us such a Bible. How well
he has succeeded you can tell from a test consisting of 67 passages
submitted to 60 Detroit pastors. Without knowing which
translation they were voting for, they gave his translation a vote
of 3,858 over against 162 for the RSV. It was the conviction of
these pastors that the passages as you have them in this book
are in the language of our hearts. They are in the crisp language
of today and tomorrow because our Lord wants to talk that way.
5. This book will catch your interest.
Here you are yourself searching for the truth and from point
to point discovering it.
6. Here you stand on your own feet.
When you try to get a truth from a difficult wording ex
plained by commentaries and pastors, you lean too much on
others to have an independent conviction. But when God speaks
clearly in your own language, what you believe isn't something
some man or church tells you but what you yourself get from
God's Word. By letting God talk directly to your heart, you will
be more thoroughly convinced. You will get the kind of sparkling
faith with which you can meet any prob lem in our puzzling
world.
7. You can teach these truths -
To a friend you'd like to win for Christ;
To get any child or adult ready for communicant membership
in the church;
In the family devotions;
In Sunday school, Bible class, vacation Bible school, released
time or Saturday classes.
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Jesus says, "See, I'm standing at the door and knocking. If you will
listen to My voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat
with you, and you with Me." (Rev. 3:20)
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