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An Overview of Habakkuk
Have you ever noticed that strange and terrible things are happening in the world? The answer to that question is really obvious. It would be really hard not to notice. But what’s not always obvious is why strange and terrible things are happening. Sometimes things happen and we simply have no answers. One of the most common questions we ask is “Why?”
The Bible: The Big Picture
The Bible, consisting of 66 books, divided into two Testaments (Old and New) is the Word of God. In Peter’s second letter he writes, “for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21). Over a time period of around 1,500 years by about forty different authors on three different…
An Introduction and Overview of Genesis
Overview The name Genesis is derived from a Greek term meaning “origin” or “beginnings”. The Hebrew title for this book is Bereshith (“In the beginning“), which is the first word in the book. Since the book of Genesis provides us with an account of things that occurred in the beginning, it is naturally a book of beginnings. The first…