Watch the Right Now Media video: The Bible. 

Discuss

• Based on what you just watched, how would you describe the Bible? 
• What is this book? 
• What does it do?

Bible Exploration

• Read 2 Timothy 3:14-15. According to these verses, what does Timothy “know”? How would Timothy be “convinced” of the truth of the Bible by knowing the people who taught it to him? How are the Scriptures described in verse 15? What does that tell us?
• Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What does it mean that Scripture is “God-breathed”? According to this verse, what is Scripture “useful” for? How does the Bible rebuke or correct us? Has that ever happened to you?
• Read Psalm 119: 105-112. How would you describe the situation of the Psalmist? Where is he coming from? In what way is God’s word a “light on our path”? What does that mean?
• Have you ever experienced this? Has the Bible “illuminated” where you need to go or how you need to live?
• What does verse 111 say about God’s word (or his “statutes”)? What does this mean? What difference would that make?
• Read Hebrews 4:12. What does this say about God’s word? In what way is God’s word “alive”? I mean, wasn’t it written thousands of years ago? What does that mean-“dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow”?
• Read James 1: 22- 25. According to verse 22, how can we “deceive” ourselves? What’s deceptive about that? What’s the mirror thing about? So how is the Bible like a mirror?
• Verse 25 mentions “the perfect law that gives freedom.” That seems like a contradiction. Doesn’t “law” tell us what to do? How is that “freedom”?

Answer the following question in the quiz.

• Write 3 points that stood out to you about this doctrine.
• In your own words, summarise what the doctrine of the Bible is.