Date: May. 15, 2021
Question
What does the Bible primarily teach?
Answer
The Bible primarily teaches what man must believe about God and what God requires of man.
Reference Passages
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Circumcise Your Heart
12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
I am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war!
He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
