Theme For This Web Site and God Gave His Word

The theme for this web site as well as all the products involved is "God Gave His Word."

After developing the Original Bible Challenge game in 1983, Jim Barineau was developing another game to teach the Bible and needed some illustrations. Jim asked a dear artist friend to illustrate the 400 years of silence between the Old Testament and the New Testament. That friend was J. Walter Crawford and this is the illustration that he drew.

The book end for the 39 books of the Old Testament is looking toward Bethlehem in Israel. The book end for the 27 books of the New Testament is looking back toward that same location. God sent His Son into this world and Jesus was born in that little village of Bethlehem. God also used about 40 people to author the 66 books of the Bible.

Look below to see how John referred to Jesus being the Word. The Bible is also referred to as The Word Of God.

Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament and Matthew is the first book of the New Testament. The time between those two books consisted of approximately 400 years.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ