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 About
the Author
A word from the author:
I wrote The Basic Bible Course in
the early 1960s to train all my church members but especially
all my volunteer teachers in a basic overall knowledge of the
Bible, and usually took six months of Sunday evenings to complete
it, which means about twenty-hours of class work.
The one comment that those who took it constantly made after
they had taken the course was,
“For the first time in my life I see the Bible as a whole,
and I understand the content and importance of each book of the
Bible. This is the first time I have ever put it all together!”
I have also found that many pastors know certain sections of
the Bible, but do not know the contents of every book of the
Bible, and do not have a comprehension of the Bible as a whole.
Regardless of whether you know the Bible well, and know only
certain parts of it here and there, The Basic Bible Course will
give you details and comprehension of the Bible as a whole that
you probably did not have before.
I suggest that as you read the Summaries and the Questions
and Answers that you also read that book of the Bible through
while you are studying. This procedure will bring your comprehension
of the Bible together like nothing else you can do.
Also remember to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you
as you read and study. After all, He is the One who wrote The
Bible, and He knows more about it than anyone else.
I will not here suggest all the ways you could take this course.
If you are taking the course on your own, that is by yourself,
without a teacher or class, then ask God to show you the best
way to approach it, how much time you can devote to it each day
or week, and what kind of procedure you should follow.
Unless God reveals knowledge of His Word to you, you can read
it and study it all of your life, and never come to a real and
experiential knowledge of Him and His Word. There are seminary,
college, and university professors, and pastors, priests, preachers,
and teachers all over the world who teach the Bible day after
day who have never had any real experience with God and have
nothing more than intellectual facts in their head, and often
they even have the facts wrong because they have no God-given
faith to believe Him or it.
Unless you have been born from above, by the Spirit of the living
God, and by His God-breathed Word, you have no light on any subject,
book, or endeavor of any kind, much less enlightenment on the
Word of God.
So as you begin this new journey through the Bible, please take
as your intimate Companion and ultimate Guide and Teacher, the
blessed Holy Spirit who authored the precious words we have in
the Bible.
Reverend Gwin Turner
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