Hearing God’s voice in God’s Word:
The first and greatest commandment
Studying the Bible is not like studying any other subject be¬cause the Bible is not primarily a book on history, geography and literature, but is first and foremost the word of God. Sometimes God does speak through the backdrop of history or geography, but we cannot study the Bible in the way we study history or literature or any other subject if our purpose is to hear God’s voice in God’s word. But if hearing God’s voice is not our main objective, then of course we can study the Bible as a purely academic subject.