Introduction
If you’ve never read the Bible and want to start, but you don’t know where to begin, this is the book for you.
If you know a little about the Bible and want to know more, this is the book for you.
This introduction to the Bible comes in the form of 101 Bible stories. At the end of each story, I will talk about things we can learn about God from the story. Those will often point you to an entry in the book’s topical index, which will in turn point you to other stories that deal with the same subject.
You can jump around and read these stories in any order, but my recommendation is to read the stories from beginning to end the first time, then go back and find the other related stories.
These Bible stories will help you learn about God and grow in your relationship with God. God loves you, and he wants you to know him and love him.
As you read, if you find yourself wanting to become a follower of Jesus, go look in Appendix A - How do I start following Jesus? to find out where to start.
Each story will contain references to where you can find the story in a Bible. Those references will look like this: [Genesis 1-3]. If you have internet access, these will be links that will take you to an online version of the Bible so you can read the original Bible text of the story. I have also written instructions in Appendix B - How do I find that in the Bible? that will help you learn how to find the story in a printed Bible.
I sometimes give direct quotes from the Bible. Most of those will be marked with (CSB), showing that I have quoted the Christian Standard Bible translation. The title page has their copyright notice.
The words and phrases that are in the topical index are links in the text (like this: Grace) that will take you to that topic in the index.
One other note, the terms “God” and “the Lord” and “Yahweh” are sometimes used interchangeably. Related to that, I will write He/Him/His (or another capitalized word) when referring to God.
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