Popular Religious and Popular Bible Questions

"What is the Bible?" is one of the most frequently asked Bible questions.​

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• The standard Christian Bible is a collection of books divided into two main sections.
  The Old Testament chronicles life before the birth of Christ.
  The New Testament shares life during and after Christ's birth.
   

• Authors inspired by God wrote these books to teach, educate, and provide a way of life that is respectful, healthy, moral, righteous, and honorable.
  The writers were generally Israelites, and they most certainly believed in God.
  Many of the authors were in close contact with God through dreams, prayer, and God's intervention in their lives.
   

• The Bible reveals God.
  This is perhaps the best description that answers the popular Bible question,
  What is the Bible?"
  God's likes and dislikes are revealed and placed on exhibit for all to see.
  Books of the Bible have stories of God's behavior and his interaction with the Israelites.
  The Bible outlines God's commands and codes of behavior and conduct.
   

• ​People live by the Christian guidebook.
  The Bible explains the purpose of life.
  The Bible provides a social set of rules for us to follow, enabling us to coexist peacefully.
  The Bible provides examples of leading a safe and wholesome life.
  Books of the Bible have stories about those who followed God's rules and the demise of those who disobeyed His commands.
   

• Life after death is revealed.
  The Bible books describe what happens at death and eternal life
  that is available after death, depending on your belief in God.
  The available options are going to a terrible place called Hell as
  a punishment or a wonderful place called Heaven as a reward.
  Genesis states that God breathed a soul into man, and this soul 
  leaves the physical body and lives after death.
  Believers will live for an eternity after death in harmony.
  Unfortunately, for nonbelievers, their souls will be destroyed by God.
   

• The first main theme throughout the Bible is that the  Earth is God's creation. 
  The Old Testament books consistently reinforce this theme.
  God created the earth and all its inhabitants for His purpose or glorification.
  The first humans were conceived as perfect individuals and were placed in paradise (the Garden of Eden) to live.
   

• God gave humans the ability to have free will and choose their way of life, however they wanted.
  Unfortunately, Adam and Eve, the first humans, chose a path of life that was not in line with God's wishes. They committed the first sin.
  Banished from their paradise, they were forced to live on their own, tainting their relationship with God.
  All humans born, starting with Adam and Eve, inherit this sinful nature.
  As a result, God gave humans some rules and commands to live by and a method to make amends for their sin.
  God accepted amends by the offering of live animal sacrifices.
  This biblical contract is the first covenant established by God with Adam and Eve.
   

• The second main theme throughout the Bible
  Is that God sent his son to Earth as a substitute sacrifice
  in place of the animal sacrifices.
  God's son, Jesus, was sacrificed and died on a wooden
  cross as payment for all the sins of everyone.
  This sacrifice applies to all God's believers, past, present,
  and the future.
  The New Testament books and the Old Testament
  Prophecies both confirm this.
  Believers no longer have to provide animal sacrifices as
  payment for their sins, as Jesus took the place of those sacrifices.
  Jesus offered a final sacrifice to atone for all our sins.
  This theme is the second covenant established by God through Jesus the Messiah.
  Hebrews 9
   

• The third main theme throughout the Bible is that there is life after death.
  Life after death occurs for everyone, good and bad, saved and unsaved.
   

• What a person believes and does determines whether they go to heaven or hell.
  The first step to entering heaven is to believe in the existence of God.
  Secondly, believe that God sent his son, Jesus, to Earth in human form as the ultimate sacrifice to pay for our sins.
  Thirdly, it helps to believe in an unseen Divine Spirit that is part of the human makeup.
  It is our internal path to God through prayer and the ability to know right from wrong.
   

• The path to heaven is secured when one becomes a believer.
  God will let those who believe in the above pray for forgiveness.
  It is a matter of asking God for entrance into heaven with a prayer.
  The Holy Spirit will enter like a dove, as it did for Jesus at his baptism.
  John 3:16
   

• The true test of belief is repentance for one's wrongdoings.
  We are to stop sinning and do our best to obey the rules and commands in the Bible that God has given us to follow.
  John 5:14