Bible: Literary Strengths And Weaknesses

The Bible contains a variety of expressions.

Most of the Bible reflects (resembles) a personal journal of one man's experience, often written in the first-person from a man's perspective.

Other parts read like poetry (Songs of Solomon), and some of its style can be deemed ‘poetic’ in nature and cadence (as found in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes).

The Bible reflects human experience and prescient claims having been resolved.

Prophetic claims (predictions) and their subsequent fulfillments.

The Bible also contains historical precedent (evidence of historical insight later verified by later sources).

Historical details have been found from one generation to another, from one era to the next.

This continuity is one strength.

Within it is found a compilation of certain details over a large expanse of time (several millennia).

These details are about a certain family’s experience.

To name that family: Abraham, his wife Sarah, and their son Isaac.

From them is the collective drama of their family growing into a tribe that became known as Israel.

Here a legacy was established.

Although it could be argued that these journals and record were retained to promote this family's legacy, notice their records were only for themselves... to remind only the descendants of Israel.

In other words, their family record wasn't intended to be promoted the world over... until later.

The record shows prescient realities.

In other words (and again), the fact that predictions were made and they were ultimately fulfilled.

That was the qualifier for their retention.

This journaling became public information that revealed its prescient claims.

This is another literary strength.

This 'revealing' occurred when someone called Christ / the Anointed One, having been mentioned in the journals and poetry, finding its fulfillment in what is now called the 1st century of the common era.

Notice how that legacy culminated in Christ touted as King over all men.

Notice this claim was not established by force of power, but through continued sacrifices of the proponents of this belief.

This is another literary strength.

Notice also how that legacy has conquered the world.

This legacy is now clearly understood from even a secular historical perspective in the reality of the Church.

From this contentions arise, whether antisemitic or anti-christ, yet this victory promised to Abraham has been brought about.

Consider the many the God of Abraham is praised around the world, revealed as the Lord Yeshua!

Thus the Bible's literary strength to show the fulfillments of things long promised / predicted is very notable.

It was predicted that from one man (Abraham) a tribe (Israel) would arise to honor a King that was theirs (Yeshua), and this King was to be honored the world over as God (the Gospel message).

Historical methodology reveals that in the 1st century among the Hebrews, both in Jerusalem and throughout that time’s empire, Yeshua was called Christ (Anointed / Messiah) and was proclaimed the Lord / God, and King over all.

His legacy, according to prophecy and historical evidence, says He would incorporate peoples from all backgrounds (tribes, languages, nations) into a single unity (His Church, the Church of Christ).

These are unrivaled strengths of the Bible's legacy.

Notice how the Bible's various messages speak about the secrets of men’s hearts (if and when men are honest with their thoughts and feelings when reading it).

Its weakness: it is sadly misunderstood by detractors and those desiring to honor their specific legacies, or their centric-tribal affiliations, or their personal religious ideas.

Historically it is very accurate.

Prescience-wise, its message has been revealed to be divine.

Its message: there is a God that loves you more than you can imagine or understand.

The proof of this God’s love for you: Messiah and the testimony about Him.