Human Nature in the Bible

<p><strong>Excerpts:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Everyone who has a thorough knowledge of the Bible may truly be called educated; and no other learning or culture no matter how extensive or elegant can among Europeans and Americans form a proper substitute. Western civilization is founded upon the Bible; our ideas our wisdom our philosophy our literature our art our ideals come more from the Bible than from all other books put together. It is a revelation of divinity and of humanity; it contains the loftiest religious aspiration along with a candid representation of all that is earthly sensual and devilish. I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible. For in the Bible we have profound thought beautifully expressed; we have the nature of boys and girls of men and women more accurately charted than in the works of any modern novelist or playwright. You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p><strong>CONTENTS</strong></p><p>Introduction</p><p>I. The Creation and the Flood </p><p>II. Four Great Personalities-Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph </p><p>III. Moses and the Ten Commandments  </p><p>IV. Famous Fighters in Canaan  </p><p>V. Ruth Eli Samuel Jonathan and King Saul  </p><p>VI. King David  </p><p>VII. Solomon in all His Glory-The Romantic Figure of Elijah </p><p>VIII. The Prophet Elisha  </p><p>IX. Downfall of Israel and Judah-The Patriotic Stories of Daniel and Esther  </p><p>X. The Apocrypha  </p><p>XI. Wisdom and Philosophy-Proverbs and Ecclesiastes  </p><p>XII. Human Nature Revealed in Poetry-Job Song of Songs Psalms Isaiah  </p>