Getting it straight from the Bible - Day, A. Colin
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The author has spent many years going through the Bible verse by verse, compiling 115,224 references sorted into 11,000 categories. These are printed in his Roget's Thesaurus of the Bible. The present book is based on his findings during this study. The inspiration of the Bible is considered, and ways to interpret it are evaluated. The following major themes are examined as extra principles governing interpretation: the Christ, the people of God, the promised land and the law. This method of interpretation is then applied to a consideration of prosperity teaching, tithing, the Sabbath, science, the last things, miracles and the church.…mehr

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The author has spent many years going through the Bible verse by verse, compiling 115,224 references sorted into 11,000 categories. These are printed in his Roget's Thesaurus of the Bible. The present book is based on his findings during this study. The inspiration of the Bible is considered, and ways to interpret it are evaluated. The following major themes are examined as extra principles governing interpretation: the Christ, the people of God, the promised land and the law. This method of interpretation is then applied to a consideration of prosperity teaching, tithing, the Sabbath, science, the last things, miracles and the church.
Autorenporträt
Colin Day studied Natural Sciences at King's College Cambridge. He served with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Vietnam and Nepal, gaining a Ph.D. in General Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For 24 years he held a senior position as a computer programmer in the Computer Centre of University College London. During that time his video course on Fortran has been used to teach tens of thousands of students. Besides his thesaurus of the Bible, he has written a number of books and articles on computing. Composing this thesaurus has been another occupation for over 30 years.