What is The Bible?

Well what exactly is the Bible?

Peter writes:

Ok let’s try to explain, the Bible is not a book which has to read in one sitting. It is not a boring book either. It is full of action, excitement and suspense as well as teaching and guidance. It is also extremely relevant for today, all we have to do is read it with an open mind and we will begin to see.

It is a complete library of books which can be read slowly and with ease over a long period of time. There are law and history books, there are books of songs, poetry as well as love stories. There is reference, philosophy, diaries and letters plus future predictions. And like all good books there are plenty of heroes and villains as well as hundreds of stories of ordinary people like you and me.

The word Bible comes from the Greek word Biblia. It means "books", a collection of books. This name started to be used in the fifth century when referring to the entire collection of sacred books or scriptures.

The Bible library consists of 66 (sixty-six different) books, written by many different writers, in three different languages*, under different circumstances; writers of almost every social rank, statesmen and peasants, kings, herdsmen, fishermen, priests, tax-gatherers, tentmakers; educated and uneducated, Jews and Gentiles; most of them unknown to each other, and writing at different periods during the space of about 1500 years and yet, after all that, it is still only one book dealing with only one main subject in its countless aspects and angles, the subject of man's relationship with God, His son Jesus Christ and our way to Heaven.

* Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.