WRITTEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD

 The Bible gives practical counsel to help us to 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 mystical, 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 daily experience.

For example, Jesus used many simple illustrations based on people's daily experience in order to teach lessons that touch the heart.  Many of these are found in what is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount, which is recorded in chapters 5 and& 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 25 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 real events and to understand the vital lessons contained in therein. - ROMANS 15:4.

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