YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE - A Book to Be Understood

WRITTEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD

The Bible gives practical counsel to help us solve everyday problems.  That counsel is easy to understand. This is so in two aspects.  

First, the Bible's language is clear, direct, and appealing.  Rather than using many expressions that are abstract or mythical, the Bible text uses words that are concrete or that relate to our senses. Difficult ideas are expressed  by words that are common to our everyday experience.

For example, Jesus used many simple illustrations based on people's daily experience in order to teach lessons that touched their heart. Many of these are found  in what is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount, which is recorded in chapter 5 to 7 of the Bible book of Matthew. Calling it "a practical discourse," one commentator observed  that its aim is "not to fill our heads with ideas, but to guide and regulate our practice."  You can read those chapters in perhaps 15 to 20 minutes, and you will be amazed to find how simple yet powerful Jesus' words are.

Another factor that makes the Bible easy  to understand is its subject matter. It is not a book of mythology or fables. Rather, for the most part, it is, as The World Book Encyclopedia puts it, "about  both great and ordinary people" and their struggles, hopes, failures, and triumphs."  It is easy for us to relate to these accounts of real people and events and to understand the vital lessons contained therein. -Romans 15:4.  

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From the Watchtower magazine