The Bible is a Single Book

By H Doyle Smith

As a child the author was taught to read the Bible, memorize verses and learn the Bible completely. After meditation on it for over sixty years he had the insight that this book shows.  The Bible is really simple, and a single book with a clear outline.  People who have added or subtracted from what it teaches have found that c

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Apr 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781946801173

H Doyle Smith

Being the son of a Southern Baptist minister, H. Doyle Smith has had an early start on reading the Holy Bible.Having read it five times even before he left his teen years, and then adding fifty years of further meditation, has given him profound understanding of what needs to be introduced in his book The Bible Is a Single Book. He is a member of Mensa and other high IQ societies. He has been a CPA for thirty years. At present, he is a member of a Lutheran church and very much involved in a men's prayer group. He is also a lay reader and a former tenor in the choir.

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The Bible is A Single Book

By

H Doyle Smith

Copyright © 2017 by H Doyle Smith

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Contents

The Bible is a Single Book v

Genesis, the Introduction 1

The Characters 7

The Problem 14

The Heart of the Matter 17

Man’s Answers 20

God’s Solution to the Question 25

To Wrap it Up 32

Comparisons with Other Religions 36

The Bible is a Single Book

The Bible is a Single Book

The Things it Says are True.

It Gives a Way to Make a Bond

Between the Lord and You

Most readers of the Bible believe that it is a compilation of 66 different books placed together with no overall plan. That is not true. The Bible is a well organized book with a central plot that tells us about how we can cooperate with God.

It starts by telling us that Adam, wanting to be like God, knowing good and evil, decided that nakedness was evil. God, not wanting and being unwilling to have any rival, kicked Adam out of the Garden of Eden. Man then did what was right in his own eyes, and the arrogance of each insisted that what he considered right was worth fighting for. The result was chaos. God finally got fed up and destroyed all but Noah and his family. Immediately, Shem and Japheth decided that Ham was wrong and the whole cycle began again.

Now God was whatever He was. My wife is whatever she is, but I wouldn’t attempt to define her. God is not definable either, but Job and his friends tried. God finally took Job aside, and gave him a lecture on who had the right to decide what God was. The last four chapters of Job are the most vicious diatribe of any speech that has ever been written.

If we as humans cannot know what is right and what is wrong, how can we operate in the world of which we are a part?

Psalms says that we should recite ritual prayers. Proverbs gives little bits of wisdom. Song of Solomon says that we should simply enjoy sex. Ecclesiastes tells us that we should be cynical. Isaiah suggests that we be like Pollyanna, always looking at the best as if it would happen. Jeremiah tells us that we should be angry. Lamentations tells us that we should cry over a lost past. All