How To Understand The Bible

How To Understand The Bible - In John 17;20, 21 Jesus prayed, “ I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,  that they all may be one, as you father one in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me’’.

it is obvious from thus prayer of Jesus that he affirmed  that one or the greatest evangelistic appeals to Him as the son of God would lie in the fact that His disciples would remain united.

Two Important Things On How To Understand The Bible:

1. We are expected to know and understand the truth.

Jesus said that His disciples would know the truth and the truth would make them free. He stated, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (Jn 8132). The Bible is the truth of God and the truth can be known. If not, then why did Jesus tell His disciples that they would know the truth. Since the truth that will make us free, then the truth about which Jesus spoke in (John 8:32) must be able to be known is order that we be free. Jesus did not give us a futile promise. He known that the honest truth seekers of the world would be able to know the truths in order to be set free.

Therefore, God has revealed the truth in order that we be set free. John wrote in order to produce faith in the hearts of those to whom he wrote. He concluded the book of  John by saying, “And truly Jesus did many other sings in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that you may believe’ (Jn 20:3031). The Bible was written is  order that we might understand that Jesus is the Christ and son of God. By understanding this, we can believer our faith is increased. Therefore God did not instruct the Bible to be written in a manner that would make it difficult ot understand the fundamental truths that one must know and obey in order to be saved. 

God expects us to understand His word because he did not reveal it to us in a manner that is difficult to understand. The fact that God will not save all those who believe in the Bible is evidence that God expects us to learn the truth from the Bible as to how we can obey the gospel (2th 1:7-9). if God had revealed the message of the gospel in the Bible in a manner that was difficult o understand, then He would be unjust in His condemnation of those who did not understand the Bible.

2. WE ARE EXPECTED TO GROW IN FAITH THAT IS BASED UPON GOD’S WORD.

God’s word is the some and formation of faith. God meant for it to be such. This is what Paul said in (Romans 10:17) “so then faith comes be hearing, and hearing by the world of God” this is why every Christian is commanded to “be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, righty dividing the word truth’ (2Tm2:15) Peter added “brow in the grace and knowledge of our hard and savior Jesus Christ’ (2P+3:18). Therefore, it we could not understand the Bible, how could we grow is faith? How could we understand Jesus? The Bible promises that if wet will read and study it, our faith will grow.

Hebrew 11:6 states, “But without faith it impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarded of those who diligently seek Him.

Since faith is a requirement for coming to and pleasing God, then we must assume that God would reveal Himself and His will to us in a manner be which we can grow in faith. For this reason, therefore, we must assume that it is impossible for all men to understand the Bible in a manner by which it will produce faiths