p. 10 | Every Part of the Bible Is Profitable

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 14, 1910

Every Part of the Bible Is Profitable

To illustrate how different portions of the Bible appeal in a peculiar manner to different nationalities, it is said that the first chapter of Matthew, giving the genealogy of the Lord, is held in much reverence by the Chinese. They have reverential regard for ancestral genealogy. This chapter, as one of them said, “takes us back to our Chinese Hsia dynasty.” It is also said that the Moslems are especially interested, as all should be, in the book of Genesis, which they correctly term, “the history of the creation of the world.” One Bible translator was a little anxious as to the effect of the long ritual chapters upon the Nepalese people. He was much surprised to find that his assistant, belonging to this people, considered this the most interesting portion of the Old Testament. God’s Word is all profitable, and while different people manifest special interest in particular portions of the Bible, as illustrated above, we are further reminded by these facts that there are no non-essentials in the Book God has written: nothing that needs editing out or written in by human hands. Salvation essentials are all there, and all are needed.