Man's Call To Salvation

Reading the Bible is different from reading an ordinary book. With an ordinary book, we usually begin on the first page and read on the end to be able to understand the story fully. With a Bible, this is not necessary. We may read only a part of it and still be able to make full use of the part we have read.

As we have learned already, the contents of the bible are arranged under two headings, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament has 46 books classified into four divisions. The New Testament has 27, classified into two divisions.

Sometimes the name of a book is written in short form.
For example: The book of Genesis=Gen or Gn
The book of Revelation= Rev or Rv
Sometimes at the end of a Bible story or passage, a reference note is made to the place where that story or passage may be found in the Bible. This reference note tell us in which part of the Bible we can find the particular story or passage. For example, if we see the note Exodus 20:1-28 this means we must look for the book title Exodus, then turn to chapter 20 of this book and look for verses 1 to 28. The reference John 1:15 will be found in the New Testament in the book of John, chapter1, Verse 15.