Part 1 of how the Bible is True, Relevant and Worth Reading.

In Jeremiah 1:2, 3, we are given the historic setting in which Jeremiah spoke.

To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Here is Jeremiah rooted in history, during the reign of the last kings before the nation was carried into the Babylonian captivity.

The Bible puts its religious teaching in a historic setting. It is quite the opposite of the new theology and existential thought, quite the opposite of the twentieth century’s reduction of religion to the “spiritual” and the subjective. Scripture relates true religion to space-time history which may be expressed in normal literary form. And that is important, because our generation takes the word religion and everything religious and turns it into something psychological or sociological.

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1) The Bible did not come out of a Vacuum. It is part of an actual History

In the next post !!

WHAT -physical evidence of the Life of Josiah the son of Amon from an ancient artifact. Its wild really… A piece of evidence proving the existence of the king through an inscription of his name dug up by a bunch of old heads who look like Indiana Jones.

WHY ?- to prove that the characters actually existed, thus proving the bibles validity

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^[1]Schaeffer, F. A. (1996, c1982). The complete works of Francis A. Schaeffer : A Christian worldview. Westchester, Ill.: Crossway Books.