Bible Truth

In This Book You Will Find -1. The most important questions.These are the questions for which you must have the answersif you want to know yourself, your God, and a life of glory.2. The answers to your questions.These are not the answers of learned men but the answersGod gives us.The 'Daily Readings' are a selection of the richest doctrinalstatements on each lesson. If you have any time to spare inclass, use it for a Bible study of these readings.3. Accurate Bible quotations.Many years of hard study of the manuscripts and of the Bibletext are behind these quotations from Beck’s translation of theBible.Dr. Beck asked the question: What does God want in a Bibletranslation? The first answer, which every Christian knows, isthat God wants us to have an accurate Bible. It should be moreaccurate than the translations of today. From such a freshtranslation, absolutely loyal to the manuscripts and the originaltext, come the passages in this book. You can trust them.On each topic we can gather a mass of Bible quotations notall of which are equally clear and direct in answering our questions.Many hundreds of Bible statements were examined mostthoroughly to select those that will help you most effectively.4. God is speaking your language.There’s a second answer to the question: What does God wantin a Bible translation? God wants to talk to our hearts. Dr. Beckhas put his life into the job of giving us such a Bible. How wellhe has succeeded you can tell from a test consisting of 67 passagessubmitted to 60 Detroit pastors. Without knowing whichtranslation they were voting for, they gave his translation a voteof 3,858 over against 162 for the RSV. It was the conviction ofthese pastors that the passages as you have them in this bookare in the language of our hearts. They are in the crisp languageof today and tomorrow because our Lord wants to talk that way.5. This book will catch your interest.Here you are yourself searching for the truth and from pointto point discovering it.6. Here you stand on your own feet.When you try to get a truth from a difficult wording explained by commentaries and pastors, you lean too much onothers to have an independent conviction. But when God speaksclearly in your own language, what you believe isn’t somethingsome man or church tells you but what you yourself get fromGod’s Word. By letting God talk directly to your heart, you willbe more thoroughly convinced. You will get the kind of sparklingfaith with which you can meet any prob lem in our puzzlingworld.7. You can teach these truths -To a friend you’d like to win for Christ;To get any child or adult ready for communicant membershipin the church;In the family devotions;In Sunday school, Bible class, vacation Bible school, releasedtime or Saturday classes.____________________Jesus says, 'See, I’m standing at the door and knocking. If you willlisten to My voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eatwith you, and you with Me.' (Rev. 3:20)