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February 09

Over the years, many interesting and perceptive comments have been made about the Bible. Here are a couple of examples.

Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University and later twenty–eighth President of the United States, made this comment:

“The Bible is the Word of life. I beg you will read it and find out for yourself. . . . You will not only find it full of real men and women, but also of things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life, . . . and the more you read, the more it will become plain to you what things are worthwhile and what are not.”2

Henry Ward Beecher, nineteenth century American Preacher and Writer said this:

“The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.”3

Writing to his co–worker Timothy about the Word of God, the Apostle Paul says: You have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture, Paul says further, is God–breathed. (2Timothy 3:15–16a).

Many years earlier the Psalmist had written, All your words are true (Psalm 119:160a).

Also wrote the Psalmist: Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path (Psalm 119:105).

The final, underlying thought about God’s Word is that of Jesus: “Blessed . . . are those that hear the Word of God, and obey it” (Luke 11:28).