30 Days to Understanding the Bible
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- ISBN13: 9781418500146
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
30 Days to Understanding the Bible, the innovative teach-yourself guide that’s helped so many readers get more out of the Bible, just got even better! Now Max Anders’ remarkable resource for Bible learning is available in a new, expanded edition, with all the features that made the original so popular plus much more.
Proven effective by over 200,000 readers, 30 Days to Understanding the Bible helps you learn to position key Bible characters, places, and events in chronological order so that you can “think your way through” the entire Word of God. Through interesting, memory-enhancing exercises, 30 Days to Understanding the Bible acquaints readers with the core teachings of Scripture in just 15 minutes a day!
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
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Frankly, I was disappointed by this book. Having been raised as a Southern Baptist, I found myself thinking more about the people and matters the author left out of the book than the material he included. Naturally, it is quite difficult to cover the entire Bible in one normal-sized book, but I found this work to be overly simplistic and lacking in its overall presentation of the true meaning of the Bible and Christianity. The author devotes the first two-thirds or so of the book to a presentation of the geography and history of Biblical times, coupled with a quick summation of the poetical, prophetic, and instructional books. Having completed that task, he ends by summing up eight basic principles of the Bible. I had expected to find the real meat of the book in this last section, but I found it sorely wanting in terms of its exposition of Christian doctrine and guidelines. The real meaning of Jesus’ life never really emerged from the pages, and the importance of faith, while addressed, was not stressed or explained as much as I would have liked or expected it to be.
Certainly, the author’s motives are noble, but his desire to make this book accessible to anyone and everyone results in a dry presentation that is not very compelling. This book would be most useful to persons without any kind of religious background, but I fear that it will not bring real understanding to most of its readers, nor do I think it will convince many sinners to seek God. Anyone brought up as a church-goer in a Christian denomination will learn nothing he/she didn’t already learn in Sunday School as a child.
Rating: 3 / 5
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
Frankly, I was disappointed by this book. Having been raised as a Southern Baptist, I found myself thinking more about the people and matters the author left out of the book than the material he included. Naturally, it is quite difficult to cover the entire Bible in one normal-sized book, but I found this work to be overly simplistic and lacking in its overall presentation of the true meaning of the Bible and Christianity. The author devotes the first two-thirds or so of the book to a presentation of the geography and history of Biblical times, coupled with a quick summation of the poetical, prophetic, and instructional books. Having completed that task, he ends by summing up eight basic principles of the Bible. I had expected to find the real meat of the book in this last section, but I found it sorely wanting in terms of its exposition of Christian doctrine and guidelines. The real meaning of Jesus’ life never really emerged from the pages, and the importance of faith, while addressed, was not stressed or explained as much as I would have liked or expected it to be.
Certainly, the author’s motives are noble, but his desire to make this book accessible to anyone and everyone results in a dry presentation that is not very compelling. This book would be most useful to persons without any kind of religious background, but I fear that it will not bring real understanding to most of its readers, nor do I think it will convince many sinners to seek God. Anyone brought up as a church-goer in a Christian denomination will learn nothing he/she didn’t already learn in Sunday School as a child.
Rating: 3 / 5
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
I enjoyed breezing through this book, but it’s really targeted to people with no prior experience with the Bible whatsoever. There are better books out there. I recommend Idiot’s Guide to the Bible, which has more depth.
Rating: 3 / 5
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
The Bible is far too complex to read cold — and 2000 years later, few of us have even a basic grasp of the structure. Real understanding of the book is possible only if you grew up with it.
Don’t let that scare you off, though. If you want to read the Bible, start by reading this book, which will prepare you well for the undertaking.
Warning: The author’s evangelical Christian bias is always on display. If you don’t share his theology, you’ll need some mature understanding of your own religious faith to get anything useful out of this book.
Bottom line: If you’re looking for a quick way to get the basic Bible story into your head, this is a great starting point. But don’t give it to your non-evangelical-Christian kids.
Rating: 4 / 5
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
This is a wonderful study tool for learning the essentials of the Bible. It is simply written, clear and concise and really does help put events, places and people in perspective as it relates to early history of Christianity.
Rating: 5 / 5
30 Days to Understanding the Bible