We continue our Stamp Out Bible Illiteracy Gently (SOBIG) campaign here on GUWG.
Last week, we kicked things off with a little quiz to assess your Bible literacy. We then went through a slew of ways to get more Bible into your ♥.
Next we’ll address a seemingly basic question: What exactly is the Bible?
The Bible is a collection of 66 books written over a 1,600-year period by 40 authors in 3 languages on 3 continents depicting nearly 3,000 characters in more than 1,500 locations through which God is revealed via a variety of prose, poetry and prophecy.
Why on earth would any sane, normal, modern person spend any time with a book like that? As we discussed last week, here’s what the Bible itself says:
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