Impressing Girls at Bible Studies

Have you ever been to a Bible study with a guy who always seems able to find the right page of the Bible in seconds? It’s impressive, right? You’re still flipping backwards and forwards through the Bible while he’s looking smug, polishing his glasses and helping the more attractive females in the group find the right page…

I would suggest that he’s able to find things so quickly, in large part, due to his understanding of the structure of the Bible. We looked at the structure of the New Testament yesterday, so let’s apply what we covered yesterday.

Let’s say that we’re looking for the 2 Timothy 3:15…

We know that Paul wrote this letter. Therefore 2 Timothy 3:15 must appear after the Gospels and Acts.

We also know that if we find ourselves flicking through the epistles from other Saints (James, Peter etc.) then we’ve gone too far.

When we’ve found the Pauline epistles, we have to narrow down our search…

We know that 2nd Timothy is a letter to a person (Timothy), so it must appear in the second half of Paul’s letters, after his letters to communities.

After a little bit of searching we finally come across 2nd Timothy. We turn to Chapter 3 and look to the 15th verse:

…from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. – 2 Timothy 3:15

So it’s clear that understanding the structure of the Bible makes it considerably easier to navigate. Now you can be a Bible ninja too 🙂

From Nathan Huang