There are four highly accredited ways to study the Bible. First, study the beauty spots, the familiar passages. Second, study the individual books and master them. Third, study the great biographies and know them. And fourth, study the structural ideas of the book as they are developed. Now this last method is unquestionably the most rewarding and likewise the most adequate way of knowing the Bible, but it isn’t the most interesting. The most interesting way to study the Bible is by studying the biographies of the book, for then we see the Bible made flesh and that is always the best way to see any truth. People are always more interesting than principles and it is a popular impression that bad people are more interesting than good people. If that is so, it is not because of their badness,…