My giveaway this Friday is a pair of apologetics resources.
First is True North: Christ, the Gospel, and Creation Care. The purpose of True North is to explore the person and work of Christ in creation, redemption, and the restoration of all things so as to establish the idea that caring for God’s creation depends not upon prognostications for or against a global warming crisis. Rather, the motivation for Christians to care for creation flows from the created purposes established in the very fabric of the universe, faithful discipleship in Christ, and the inherent goal to return to God all the glory he is due from every corner and aspect of creation.
The second is the black, bonded leather version of The Apologetics Study Bible. This Bible will help today’s Christians better understand, defend, and proclaim their Christian beliefs in this age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism. More than one-hundred key questions and articles placed throughout the volume about faith and science prompt a rewarding study experience at every reading.
To be eligible to win, tell us which book of the Bible is the most difficult for you to understand?
The deadline to enter is midnight CST this Saturday. We will draw one winner from the entries on Monday morning.
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Ezekiel. Definitely Ezekiel.
1 Corinthians. A lot of tricky theological knots with pastoral and practical implications.
I’ll second Ezekiel
Revelation
Jude
For me it is Isaiah
The book of revelation. Depending on which side of the fence you fall it could be apocalyptic or all figurative speech.
Is John speaking to his audience in code?
Are the depictions in revelation going to actually happen?
Its difficult to know
Numbers has always been difficult to follow. It looks like creative accounting at some points and has done strange moments included throughout the book.
Book of Revelation .
Revelation
Revelation
Revelation, without a doubt
Leviticus because of all the laws, number measurements, and historical recordings. Then I’d say Philemon. Not because it’s hard to understand, but I think a lot of people read over it without capturing the beauty and significance of Paul’s letter.
Job, the issue of theodicy.
Tie between Nahum and Obadiah
Revelation
Leviticus, because I’ve always had trouble comprehending many of the Levitical Laws
Lamentations
Hebrews.
Although I love reading it, Revelation is the hardest to understand. I’m hoping the Apostle John teaches some classes on this in Heaven
I find Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon equally baffling.
Philemon… nah I’m just kiddin’, probably Isaiah.
I have to go with Ezekiel
Job.
Leviticus
Hebrews
Although I understand the overall theme of it, but Revelation has always been a tough one.
Isaiah. I always struggle to get what can be applied contemporarily. Or even to Jesus for that matter!
Without a doubt, Ezekiel!
Job
Hebrews
For me, it’s got to be Revelation. It’s full of hope, but full of so many unanswered questions.
I’d have to go with Revelation.
Ezekiel, and I even took it as an intensive in Bible college! Lol
Ezekiel
Leviticus
Numbers, I just don’t get it.
Ezekiel….
I have three Genesis, 1 Peter, & Revelations.
It’s Daniel. The weeks, the empires….
Ezekiel has to be the hardest overall. So mamy types and visions.
Revelation
Hebrews
Leviticus
Job. It’s difficult to understand in light of the fact that we have 35 chapters (more than any NT book) in Job of conversation from men that darken God’s counsel.
Ezekiel
Ezekiel / Revalation.
Job challenges me the most because it pushed my understanding of who God is and how (and perhaps even why) God works in the world and our lives.
Revelation
Isaiah is tough for me
Song of Solomon
I think I have a good handle on the books of the Bible. When I say “handle”, I think I get the context, the historical perspective, that sort of thing. But other than Genesis and Exodus, the rest of the books of the Pentateuch are probably most problematic for me. Trying to ingest a lot of seemingly arbitrary or antiquated rules/laws is tough for me to get my arms around in a Gospel context. What really applies today and what has been paid for by the Gospel of Jesus.
Revelation
Revelation.
For me, I suppose it is Revelation.
Probably Revelation… or Daniel….
Has to be Revelation
Revelation
Revelations
Well…I know it’s not a book, but I have trouble understanding how to teach/preach/apply the name lists in the Bible (in 1 Chronicles, for example).
Definately Revelation or Daniel
Jeremiah
Ezekiel by far!
Revelation
Job, the long drawn out responses of Job’s friends lose me every time.
Isaiah
A toss up between Zechariah and Revelation, mostly due to the prophecies’ tendency to look back and then forward, sometimes in the same passage. Sometimes it has a double entendre in the same passage …fun stuff, those prophetic books.
Revelation
Revelation. I understand that John was describing things that he saw that hsn’t happened yet, but man some of these passages are tough to comprehend.
I had a class in college on the minor prophets and I still find Hosea somewhat perplexing.
Hebrews
Revelation
Revelation!
Ecclesiastes
All books have their parts of where I question but I would have to say Proverbs. It’s both the easiest to understand and the hardest to comprehend at the same time.
The Imprecatory Psalms. I understand the writer’s perspective, but I don’t quite get the Holy Spirit’s inspiration part.
Job
The book of Revelation tops the list!
Daniel
For me, Isaiah is one of the most difficult books to understand. You can gain insight from a cursory reading, but to really comprehend what is going on you need some commentaries and/or Bible handbooks readily available to guide you.
Gospel of John. Deeper than it seems.
The Book of Leviticus.
Revelation
Job
Revelation
Leviticus
The “Heavy Revie” – Book of Revelation I find the toughest.
I would have to say for me as a Theology student would have to be Judges. Just the lessons that are taught there and how we are to teach and apply them in a modern day context can be quite hairy.
Revelation
Book of Leviticus
The book of Revelation, especially when trying to find application in your life.
Ezekiel
None of them. Since I have truly found Jesus, I can fully understand them all.
Job. Having faith in God’s benevolence and sovereignty in the midst of great suffering. I know others who have gone through immense suffering and I wonder why. I know why in theological terms but it still boggles my mind.
Song of Solomon…
Revelation
Undoubtedly the book of Leviticus, because of it emphasis on all the laws. I know there’s Grace there but the only way t o find it is in Jesus’ fulfillment of all these laws.
Revelation and Ezekiel
Revelation – I just can’t wrap my head around it. Progressive Dispensationalism or Progressive Covenentalism?
Revelations
Leviticus
Daniel. Once it goes into the prophetic part of the book, it becomes pretty challenging.
Revelation
The Book of Revelation!
Romans… Just because of the significant theological discussions and implications. And it is my favorite book too!
Revelation. So overwhelming.
Toss up between Revelation and Isaiah. But O’ so good to plumb the depths!
It would have to be Ecclesiastics for me. I don’t get what the book is trying to point out so I stopped reading it.
HABAKKUK
Number
Revelation.
Eziekel
Revelation
Leviticus in the OT, Hebrews in the NT.
In both cases, my problem is not so much lack of personal understanding, but the difficulty of teaching them to twenty-first century Americans in a way that they understand and find relevant.
One of the books that I’d love to study more in depth is Numbers. and Esther
This week’s winner is Rebecca R Moran. Congratulations, Rebecca!
Leviticus
With all that’s happening today, the Prophetic books like Ezekiel and Daniel are important to better understand
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