Firstly there are many evangelical movements who do such good work bringing a

knowledge of the Saviour to men and then acknowledgment in their lives.  But is the

new born babe in Christ supplied with suitable nourishment from the Word that Peter was

exhorted to supply in John 21: 15? Have the sheep any qualified shepherds to feed the

flock with the meat of the Word as Paul describes in I Cor. 3: 2? Secondly, in the list

of church services how many are devoted to Bible Study? This duty of the church and all

Christians is often neglected because the Old Testament accounts of the Flood and the

Six days creation cannot be accepted in the light of the generally accepted statements of

the origin of the universe.

The knowledge of the Bible is imperative in order to know God and His Salvation.

The whole purpose of God is to receive worship from His creatures as our Lord told the

woman at the well. "The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:

for the Father seeketh such to worship Him" (John 4: 23).

Can we really believe that God Who took such trouble to build a chain of

communication with us would allow into His record stories of basic importance to be

mere myths and legends? The critics of the Bible write as if it was Moses or Paul who

were writing rather than that they were only the amanuenses for God. Because they have

no satisfactory rational explanation of how God supervised His works of prophecy and

history they are ready to discount much of the record, denying the divine authorship.

We have often heard it said and seen it written that in the O.T. men were feeling after

God as if it was Moses and David etc. who were self inspired warriors carving out a

conquered inheritance by their own imagination, design and power. It was God Himself

Who spoke to these men, directing and encouraging them in their fight against the

Canaanites and other nations of the evil seed of Satan. Consider an example of the awful

practices of these nations which alas Israel and Judah so often copied.

God planned and overruled the events making up the history of His people in the O.T.

Needless to say this did not include their rebellion and constant disobedience and

unfaithfulness towards His love and goodly provision for them. Every step taken by

Abraham and his progeny we find taken by the specific instruction of God either directly

to the individual or to His chosen prophet. Far from the people feeling after God, they

repeatedly went against His commands, corrupting themselves in every way until at the

end of their history we read:

In the Old Testament as well as the New, God was a long suffering and patient God of

love. Let those who think differently take the trouble to read all the O.T. and test the

truth of these words. If a surgeon is forced to amputate a gangrenous limb to save the life