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How to Profit from Prophecy and Other Types of Biblical Literature
By Clinton E. Arnold
Many Christians would describe the Bible as a God-given guidebook for life. Yet people who pick it up for the first time find it quite different from the guidebooks and manuals they are familiar with. The Bible doesn’t provide an indexed list of instructions dealing step-by-step with the issues of life, like, “This is what you should do if...,” or, “Here are eight criteria for finding a good church . . .,” or, “If you have come to Christ from a background in secular humanism, this is where your worldview now needs to change.”
Rather, when we thumb through the pages of the Bible, we find many different kinds of writings. There are numerous stories, the lyrics of dozens of songs, as well as wise sayings, personal letters, and the records of prophecies . . .
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Clinton E. Arnold
TheologianClinton E. Arnold is a New Testament theologian and author with a special interest in the historical and cultural setting of the letters of Paul and the Book of Acts. He is the former Dean of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, and he presently serves on the translation oversight committee for the English Standard Version (ESV). Arnold received his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in New Testament Exegesis from the University of Aberdeen. He is the editor of the four-volume Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary for which he wrote commentaries on “Acts," "Ephesians” and “Colossians,” and most recently he completed the commentary on Colossians for the World Biblical Commentary series.
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Clinton E. Arnold
TheologianClinton E. Arnold is a New Testament theologian and author with a special interest in the historical and cultural setting of the letters of Paul and the Book of Acts. He is the former Dean of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, and he presently serves on the translation oversight committee for the English Standard Version (ESV). Arnold received his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in New Testament Exegesis from the University of Aberdeen. He is the editor of the four-volume Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary for which he wrote commentaries on “Acts," "Ephesians” and “Colossians,” and most recently he completed the commentary on Colossians for the World Biblical Commentary series.


