Why Bother with the Bible? (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The Bible’s a unique book written thousands of years ago. It’s all about Jesus, from Genesis to Revelation, yet it seems to understand each of us. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg teaches the best way to interpret and apply Scripture to our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | The Baxter |
| 0:07.0 | The Borgheim The Bible is a unique book. |
| 0:27.0 | It was written thousands of years ago. |
| 0:28.9 | It's all about Jesus from Genesis to Revelation. |
| 0:32.9 | And yet, it seems to understand each of us today. |
| 0:37.3 | So what's the best way for us to rightly interpret, to properly understand? it seems to understand each of us today. |
| 0:40.8 | So what's the best way for us to rightly interpret, |
| 0:44.3 | to properly understand the Bible and apply it to our lives? |
| 0:46.7 | We'll find out today on Truth for Life. |
| 0:50.2 | Alistur Begg is teaching from 2nd Timothy chapter 3, and he begins today in verse 14. |
| 0:59.5 | Thank you. and he begins today in verse 14. So who wrote this Bible? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, ultimately God wrote the Bible, but man wrote the Bible. |
| 1:07.1 | B.B. Warfield, in a very helpful quote, says, |
| 1:10.6 | if God wishes to give the people a series of letters like Paul's, |
| 1:17.5 | he prepares a Paul to write them. |
| 1:21.4 | And the Paul he brought to the task was a Paul who could spontaneously write such letters. But here's the issue. The church did not |
| 1:34.7 | write the Bible. Prophets and apostles wrote the word to the people of God. And the reliability of what they wrote lies in the fact that behind |
| 1:47.9 | them is the work of the Holy Spirit. And this is the reason why the church has no right to rewrite |
| 1:56.8 | what God has written. In the scriptures, God was and is speaking to us. If you want to listen to God, |
| 2:10.9 | open your Bible. The safest way to hear God speak is to read your Bible, and beware of every other notion |
| 2:21.2 | about how you're going to hear from God. The mystical ideas that have come out of the dark |
| 2:27.0 | centuries, understandably so, when they didn't have a Bible to guard them and to keep them, |
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