Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith Lim Susan C.
Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith Lim Susan C. While Christians generally acknowledge that the Bible is God's Word, many of us lack robust confidence in…
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Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith Lim Susan C.
While Christians generally acknowledge that the Bible is God's Word, many of us lack robust confidence in the reality of its trustworthiness. But the more we understand how Scripture came to be, the more we discover its power and truth.Historian Susan Lim unpacks how the history of the Bible bolsters our faith and anchors us through the changing tides of time. We may not be sure if we really believe what we read.
Lim explains how Christians came to accept certain documents as inspired and not others, and how the books we now call the Bible came to be assembled and canonized as authoritative. The story of Scripture, while messy and complicated at times, is also the story of how God shepherded his people throughout the centuries in and through these writings. The same Spirit of God who oversaw the writing of Scripture continues to be at work actively in us in