The Unity of the Bible (Part 1)

More than forty writers contributed to the Bible. The sixty-six books that make up the Bible have an incredibly rich content. Nevertheless, the Bible forms a unity. It can be compared to the human body, which consists of many members and organs and yet unmistakably forms a unity.

1

Both the versatility of the books of the Bible as well as the unity are indicated with a particular phrase.

In relation to the first aspect - the versatility - we refer to the Scriptures. This becomes clear from the words of the Lord Jesus.

Your response:

Jesus says to them, Have you never read in the scriptures,

And Jesus answering said to them,

You err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God ... (Matthew 22:29)

The stone which they that built rejected, this has become the corner-stone ... (Matthew 21:42)

2

At other places as well, the Lord Jesus speaks of the Scriptures.

Read in Matthew 26:47-56 about the arrest of the Lord Jesus!

Your response:

As Judas comes with a large crowd to arrest the Savior, Peter draws his sword. The Lord reproaches him and then asks him, "How then should the be fulfilled that thus it must be?"

In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Are you come out as against a robber with swords and sticks to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you did not seize me. But all this is come to pass that the of the may be fulfilled."

3

The Acts of the Apostles also repeatedly talks about the Scriptures. It is said about Apollos in Acts 18:24:

But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus. (Acts 18:24)

The following quotes are about Apollos in Achaia, Paul in Thessalonica and the Jews in Berea.

Your response:

... who, being come, contributed much to those who believed through grace. For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

And according to Paul’s custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures, opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead ...

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

Acts 17:2-3

Acts 18:27-28

Acts 17:11

4

In Corinth, there were those who claimed that there was no resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15:12). To refute this false teaching, Paul first cites the testimony of the Scriptures.

What does he say in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4?

Your response:

according to the scriptures ...
and that he was raised the third day,
what also I had received,
and that he was buried;
that Christ died for our sins,
For I delivered to you, in the first place,
according to the scriptures;

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