1. What one word from the text of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 best describes the Bible as God’s Word?
2. What is the meaning of the word “inspiration”?
3. According to Jeremiah 1:9, what did God do for the prophet Jeremiah?
4. In 1 Thessalonians 5:21, what did Paul admonish Christians to always do?
5. According to Romans 10:17, what is the origin of faith?
6. Approximately how many men wrote the text of the Bible?
7. Approximately how many years did the writing of the Bible span?
8. In Daniel 4, Daniel wrote of four separate world kingdoms (or empires) that eventually would come to pass. What were those four kingdoms?
9. What did the prophet Isaiah do in chapters 44 and 45 of his book that is so astonishing?
10. Approximately how many messianic prophecies are there in the Old Testament?
11. What words are used in this lesson to sum up the purpose of the Bible?
12. According to 1 Peter 3:15, what are Christians always to be ready to do?
13. According to 1 Corinthians 2:12, what is the origin of the words used by the men who wrote the text of the Bible?
14. What important message is contained in passages such as Genesis 1:1 and Acts 17:24?
15. How does the Bible’s brevity support its claim of inspiration at the hand of God?
16. What, according to this lesson, is the definition of biblical prophecy?
17. How does the statement, “The Bible pictures man as he really is,” support the concept of biblical inspiration?
18. How does the calmness of the text of the Bible support its claim of inspiration at the hand of God?
19. What three items are listed in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 as being things for which the Bible is profitable?
20. What important point for us today is contained in Romans 5:8?
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