# Believing Bible Study  ## Metadata - Author: [[Edward F. Hills]] - Full Title: Believing Bible Study - Category: #books ## Highlights - The man who is well pleased with himself, with his prospects, and with his whole manner of life will never read the Bible believingly. ([Location 81](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=81)) - Reader, if you are perishing in the furnace of affliction, or if you are walking in darkness with no light, or if your heart is fretted with anxieties and corroding cares, or if your will is bound under wretched slavery to sinful lusts, or if your soul is chilled with the fear of death and the unknown, then the Bible is the Book, the only Book for you. ([Location 90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=90)) - We must have faith if we would meet with God in holy Scripture and receive the comfort that comes only from Him. ([Location 109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=109)) - There are four ways in which God so reveals Himself: first, in the processes of nature; second, in the unfolding of human history; third, in the preaching of the Gospel; fourth, in the holy Scriptures. ([Location 138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=138)) - In the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires, in the decline of nations and their passage into oblivion, and in the downfall and ignoble deaths of modern tyrants such as Mussolini and Hitler, God reveals His justice and His wrath against sin. ([Location 163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=163)) - As John Calvin observed, the Scriptures are the spiritual eyeglasses which enable our sin-blinded minds to see aright the revelation which God makes of Himself in nature.1 ([Location 189](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=189)) - the Scriptures are that pure well of divine truth to which the preachers of the Gospel must continually repair and fill their silver pitchers. The Scriptures, therefore, are the foundation of faith. In them alone God's revelation of Himself is found unobscured by human error. They are the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever (1 Pet. 1:23). ([Location 192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=192)) - Since Christ through His Holy Spirit is the divine Author of the sacred Scriptures, His statements regarding their human authorship are final. ([Location 231](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=231)) - In 1488 the entire Hebrew Bible was printed for the first time. A second edition was printed in 1491 and a third in 1494. This third edition was used by Luther in translating the Old Testament into German. ([Location 463](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=463)) - Jerome at first attempted to revise the Latin Old Testament, but in 390 he undertook the labor of producing a new translation directly from the Hebrew. This version, which Jerome completed in 405, later became known as the Latin Vulgate and is the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, having been so proclaimed at the Council of Trent (1546). ([Location 516](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=516)) - Protestants accord to them the respect which they deserve as ancient documents but reject them as divine Scripture for the following reasons: (1) None of them was ever quoted by Christ or the Apostles. (2) They have always been rejected by the Jews. (3) Many of the early Church Fathers rejected them. (4)"None of them makes any claim to inspiration, while the best of them disclaim it. Some of them consist in childish fables, and inculcate bad morals."15 ([Location 525](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B074ZN8C1Y&location=525))