Not Everything in Our Bibles Is Inspired

Foreword by Dr. Ralph Winter, Chancellor, William Carey University

What you have in your hands is a jewel. On the one hand it is a light, jaunty page-turner, almost like reading a novel. At the same time it is constantly wandering (cleverly, intentionally) into a huge amount of the kind of information about the Bible that is normally reserved for privileged seminary students.

I truly doubt if anyone has ever written a book which makes so much ‘weighty’ knowledge about the Bible so digestible, so accessible, so fascinating and so attractive. It is not to be read just once, but treasured as a permanent reference to which you will want to refer again and again.

I suspect if Neil had given chapter titles that employed seminary language to describe their contents, you, the reader, might be inclined to skip this one or that one. As it is, you can’t possibly imagine what is in a chapter simply by reading its title! But that is a very good thing. No serious believer ought to skip even a single chapter. Once you get into a chapter you find yourself involved in information you might never have sought out – mainly because you could not have imagined what it was.

This is a very important book. It is very important for the simple reason that the Bible itself is very important. There is no more important book to know all about than the Bible, and this book will tell you many, many things which 98 per cent of Christ’s followers don’t know and have never even thought about.

Good work, Neil. You have created an incredibly valuable introduction to the Bible, and you have done it in a marvellously winsome way. It is bound to be a major blessing to many.

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