Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host Felicia Masonheimer and I am here to teach you how to

know what you believe to live it boldly and to communicate it graciously to the

world around you.

I believe that women are ready to go deeper in their faith than ever before,

and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

every woman is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. This week we are in episode 3 of the beginner believer

series and we are talking about how to understand the Bible. When I asked on Instagram what questions did you have as a new believer this was one of the top

Answers how do I understand the Bible? It feels so overwhelming and I can totally see why. This is an ancient text. It was written

or thousands of years by many different authors in a culture so different than most of ours. And so when we're reading it as modern

readers, especially modern Westernized readers, it can be so difficult to

translate the truths of God to our understanding today.

Now in this short episode I'm not going to get into every aspect of how to do this.

I do have other episodes on Bible study that may be helpful to you if you scroll back and then of course I have

the canon series it was the second series of this podcast several years ago

where I went through how the Bible was compiled and why we can trust it. So I'm not going to get into those

details here. I would recommend going back and listening to those

episodes for something that's more in depth. In this episode I'm just going to

hit some of the high points of how to understand the Bible if you are just starting out and we're going to start by talking about the Bible's intent, it's design, biblical genre, or the types of literature.

How to read the Bible effectively and where to begin.

And then some tips for if you're confused

while you're reading the Bible.

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