What Is Living Bible?
Answer: The Living Bible is an English version of the Bible. The words and sentences in The Living Bible reflect the way people speak today so that most people can understand them.
The Bible talks about the Scriptures as being “living and active,” so that’s where the name came from. There are many other English translations of the Bible.
Some of the most well-known are: the New International Version, the New American Standard Bible, the King James Version, the New King James Version, and the New Revised Standard Version.
Key verse: For whatever God says to us is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest sword. It cuts swift and deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It shows us for what we really are. (Hebrews 4:12)
Related questions: Why do they call The Living Bible the Living Bible? Is the New King James written by a new guy named King James? Is NIV the last name of the man who wrote the Bible?
Why Did God Put Scary Stories In The Bible?
Answer: The Bible tells true stories about real people who actually lived and died. Sometimes those stories can seem scary to us. God included those stories because he wanted to teach us something from them.
That is, they weren’t put there to scare us but to serve as a warning of what to avoid, to show us what we should do, and to help us learn how to live.
Some teachings in the Bible seem scary to people, especially people who disobey God because the stories reveal the bad that can happen when we choose to do evil.
Hopefully, these teachings will show us how important it is to listen to God.
Key verse: All these things happened to them as examples to us. They warn us not to do the same things. They were written so we could learn from them as the world nears its end. (1 Corinthians 10:11)
Related verses: Psalm 119: 105; John 20:30-31; Revelation 1:3
Related question: Why did God tell us about all sorts of terrible things that happen?