Missteps and Enslavement.
Studying the Bible is a little like digging for buried treasure. You know it’s there, but you have to go in looking for it, eyes wide open, intentionally looking, busily digging, breaking a sweat. It’s not impossible, but it’s not easy either.
Origins of God’s Chosen People
I remember when I went on my first airplane ride. It really was just a ride. We went up in a 4-seater airplane, circled the airport a couple of times, then landed again. But while I was up there, I thought I could see forever. It wasn’t until I road in a huge 747 that I really got the view – 35,000 feet or so – flying over ocean and land and seeing only vague outlines of fields.
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Beginnings and Relationships.
How are you with new beginnings? New job, new friends, new neighborhood, new school, new thoughts? The Bible has about 10 pages that talk about beginnings. And things are really new. Everything has a beginning: light, water, earth, trees, humanity, sin, disgrace, loss, death.
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Importance of studying the Bible.
How big is the universe? Technology enables NASA astronauts in a space shuttle to orbit the equator at speeds up to 25,000 mile per hour. However, if people hope to get anywhere in the universe, they would have to travel at the speed of light, or seven times around the equator in one second! Even at that speed, it would take 4 years and 2 months to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star to our own solar system. At the fastest speed we’ve ever been able to produce in rockets under full power in the vacuum of space – which is around 40,000 miles per hour – it would take us 70,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. Even if we could attain the speed of light – which is physically impossible with today’s technology – it would take 14 billion years to reach the edge of known space. But Scientists theorize that what we can see of known space is 1 billionth of theoretical space. Some scientists say that the universe is limitless, and still expanding.
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