The Basics About the Bible: The First Five

Valerie's Non-Scholarly Briefing The Bible in Minutes Course:

Old Testament: Books of Law

  These are known as the Pentateuch, Torah, and Books of Moses as well.*

The Basics of the Basics About the Bible

Valerie's Non-Scholarly Briefing The Bible in Minutes Course: 

A Word about the Basics

from II Peter 1

The Bible Contains: 

The thing about Judges 2

is that everything had changed.  The Red Sea had been crossed.  The time of miracles & manna was over; they'd crossed the Jordan and were in the Promised Land.
  But where were the rivers flowing with milk & honey?  They looked like pretty ordinary rivers.  And what about these neighbors they were supposed to kill, not intermarry with?  They seemed like decent people. Some, in fact, did better at living up to the principles we know than those who taught them.
  And then there's those fun customs.
  But those customs were not for them. They were forbidden by the rules, given to bless them.
  It's the same for us.

  i found this in some old papers.   Been there; trying to get away, live better.  Anyone else see themself?

Steps to a Seared Conscience

notes from

Charles Stanley, 12/1/00

• deliberate - a choice
• degrees - little by little, ignoring prompting
• defensive
• defiant
• dead - unfazed
• destructive - a seared conscience destroys the individual
• dangerous - to others

To sharpen the Conscience:

• fill the mind with the Word of God
  • NOT just reading it - stay in the Word
  • it's impossible to be obedient to God with a closed Bible
• instantaneous obedience to conscience, as to an alarm
• ask God's will
  • no need to ask "if it be Thy will" - IT IS
  • "Show me the truth about myself"
• confess (a start, but not enough)
• REPENTANCE - emotional, physical separation from sin (not consequences only)
• make amends