The Bible: God's Revelation of Himself

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by Nancy Burmaster

This LE helps clarify that the Bible is God's complete, authoritative, inspired, inerrant revelation of Himself. It does not tell us everything we will ever know about God--that won't happen on this earth. But the Bible does tell us everything we need to know for salvation and righteousness (2 Tim 3:14-16)

Small group setting in an on-going relationship:

Ask each person to bring a picture of themselves to the gathering--any picture of themself.

During the gathering ask each person to share the picture and why they chose that one to share.

Point out some of the explicit (obvious) revelations from the picture (gender, hair color, setting) and some of the implicit (implied) revelation from the picture ( season, event, relationships, culture).

Discuss how the Bible reveals obvious things about God--creator, savior, redeemer. And as our relationship with the Word grows, we see the less obvious things about God--trinitarian nature, etc. As we study a picture more deeply and know the person in the picture, we understand better. And as we study God's revelation of Himself, we understand Him better.