I have a new activity this month.

(Anticipation is so great I can feel it even as I type!!)

A very generous lady has lent me a book, titled “Know Your Bible?” by Amos R. Wells, which she thought I could use in the Developer.

Ergo, I insert into this edition some questions from this book which you, dear reader, are to answer as you desire and send in your answers as you wish.  The introduction to this book is so hilarious and much better than any overview I could invent, that I will briefly insert it, as well.

Know Your Bible?          

Introduction

“Everyone who uses this book is going to be per-fect-ly dee-lighted with it. But not at first. Oh, no; not at first. At first, most of the people who use this book are going to be disgusted with themselves or with me or both. They are going to discover how much-or how little-they know about the Bible. They are likely going to discover that it is “how little” rather than “how much.” And they are going to blame it on me. They are going to say, “What  fool questions! I could answer any sensible set of questions about the Bible, but these-pah!” Ours is an age of alibis. All I can say is that if any one can get up a set of fifteen hundred questions on the Bible, covering all parts of it, and include a larger number of easy questions than I have included, I’d like to see him do it. I’d just like to see him do it.

I’ve tried to ask fifteen hundred questions which any one ought to be able to answer if he really knows his Bible; not with the minutiae of the Bible, but with its broad general outlines. These questions do not call for a knowledge of genealogical tables, but of the chief Bible characters. They do not call for the details of Jewish history, and not a single date is asked for in all the fifteen hundred queries; but they do insist upon a knowledge of the Bible’s most significant and interesting events, from cover to cover. The questions are not theological-perhaps some would find them easier if they were, for then they could air out their theories; but the call for an aquaintance with the most beautiful and uplifting sentences and passages in all the sixty-six books of the Bible, the inspired wisdom and on which all theology is based-or ought to be.”

This is only a sample of the introduction but should be ample explanation of the book’s purpose and flavor. It looks to be a rather addictive activity, so I’l only put three questions in this month, and see what you, dear reader, think of it. Hopefully it will broaden your knowledge of the Word of God, and keep your Bible-trivial facts on their toes.

Know Your Bible?

Series I

1. What famous town is five miles south of Jerusalem?

2.Who said, “Thou art the man?”

3. What book of the Bible tells about the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem?

AAAAUUUUGGGG!

I’m going to have trouble with these! Please send me your answers along with any other contributions you may have that will bless others and glorify God! Merry Christmas! See you in January!

- Abby M. Frierson