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+<chapter id="h2-importance"><title>Importância da Palavra de Deus</title>
+<para>Understanding God's word is of great importance to all who call on God's 
+name.  Study of the Bible is one of the primary ways that we learn to 
+communicate with God.</para>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-unique"><title>Um Livro que é Único</title>
+<para>The Bible stands alone in many ways.  It is unique in:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+popularity.  Bible sales in North America: more than $500 million per 
+year. The Bible is both the the all-time and year-to-year best seller!
+</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+authorship.  It was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 different 
+authors from different backgrounds, yet reads as if written by one.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+preservation.  F. F. Bruce in <emphasis>Are New Testament Documents 
+Reliable?</emphasis> compares New Testament manuscripts with other ancient 
+texts:
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+<table id="h2-importance-manuscripts-table">
+<title>Comparação dos manuscritos do Novo Testamento com outros textos antigos.</title>
+<tgroup cols="5">
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry>Texto</entry>
+<entry>Quando foi Escrito</entry>
+<entry>Cópia mais recente</entry>
+<entry>Diferença de Tempo</entry><entry>Número de Cópias</entry>
+</row></thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry>Herodotus</entry>
+<entry>448-428 A.C.</entry><entry>900 D.C.</entry>
+<entry>1300 anos</entry><entry>8
+</entry></row>
+<row>
+<entry>Tacitus</entry>
+<entry>100 D.C.</entry><entry>1100 D.C.</entry>
+<entry>1000 anos</entry><entry>20
+</entry></row>
+<row>
+<entry>Caesar's <emphasis>Gallic War</emphasis></entry>
+<entry>50-58 A.C.</entry><entry>900 D.C.</entry>
+<entry>950 anos</entry><entry>10
+</entry></row>
+<row>
+<entry>Livy's <emphasis>História Romana</emphasis></entry>
+<entry>59 A.C. - 17 D.C.</entry><entry>900 D.C.</entry>
+<entry>900 anos</entry><entry>20
+</entry></row>
+<row>
+<entry>Novo Testamento</entry>
+<entry>40 D.C. - 100 D.C.</entry><entry>130 D.C Manuscritos parciais - 350 D.C. Manuscritos completos</entry> <entry>30 - 310 anos</entry><entry>5000 em Grego &amp; 10.000 em Latim
+</entry></row>
+</tbody></tgroup></table>
+<para>Ten copies of Caesar's <emphasis>Gallic War</emphasis> exist, the earliest 
+of which was copied 900 years after Caesar wrote the original, etc.  For the 
+New Testament we have full manuscripts dating to 350 A. D., papyri 
+containing most of the New Testament from the 200s, and a fragment of John's 
+gospel from 130 A. D.  How many manuscripts do we have to compare to each 
+other? 5,000 in Greek and 10,000 in Latin!  </para>
+<blockquote><attribution>Textual critic F. J. A. Hort, "The New Testament in the Original Greek", 
+vol. 1 p561, Macmillan Co., quoted in <emphasis>Questions of Life</emphasis> 
+p.  25-26</attribution><para>"Na verdade e plenitude das evidências e contexto, o Novo Testamento está em 
+absoluta e inalcançável posição dentre outras escrituras antigas." </para></blockquote>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-breathed"><title>Um Livro Inpirado por Deus</title>
+<para><emphasis>Heb.4:12 </emphasis>"<emphasis>For the word of God is living and 
+active...  </emphasis>" Jesus said <emphasis>(Mt.4:4),</emphasis> 
+"<emphasis>It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every 
+word that proceeds [lit., is proceeding] from the mouth of God.</emphasis>" 
+As we read the Bible, God's Spirit is there to speak it to our hearts in a 
+continually-fresh way.
+</para>
+<para>2 Tm 3.16 declara "<emphasis>Toda Escritura é divinamente 
+inspirada</emphasis>". Você acredita nisso? Antes de responder, considere a 
+atitude de Jesus a respeito das Escrituras.  </para>
+<blockquote><attribution>John R.W. Stott, <emphasis>Cristo o Controverso</emphasis>, Editora 
+InterVarsity 1978, pp.93-95 </attribution><para>He referred to the human authors, but took it for granted that behind them 
+all was a single divine Author.  He could equally say 'Moses said' or 'God 
+said' (Mk.7:10). He could quote a comment of the narrator in Genesis 2:24 as 
+an utterance of the Creator Himself (Mt.19:4-5).  Similarly He said, 'Well 
+did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written', when what He went 
+on to quote is the direct speech of the Lord God (Mk.7:6 &amp; Is.29:13).  
+It is from Jesus Himself that the New Testament authors have gained their 
+conviction of the dual authorship of Scripture.  For them it was just as 
+true to say that 'God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets' (Heb.1:1) 
+as it was to say that 'men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God' (2 
+Pe.1:21).  God did not speak in such a way as to obliterate the personality 
+of the human authors, nor did men speak in such a way as to corrupt the Word 
+of the divine Author.  God spoke.  Men spoke.  Neither truth must be allowed 
+to detract from the other. ...
+</para>
+<para>
+This, then, was Christ's view of the Scriptures.  Their witness was God's 
+witness. The testimony of the Bible is the testimony of God.  And the chief 
+reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that 
+Jesus Christ Himself taught it.  </para></blockquote>
+
+<para>2 Tm 3.16 conitnua, "<emphasis>e proveitosa para ensinar, para repreender, 
+para corrigir, para instruir em justiça; para que o homem de Deus seja 
+perfeito, e perfeitamente preparado para toda boa obra</emphasis>". Se nós 
+aceitamos que a Bíblia realmente é Deus falando conosco, consequentemente 
+ela será nossa autoridade em toda questão de fé e conduta. </para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-works"><title>Um Livro que Funciona</title>
+<para>
+O que o Estudo Bíblico pode fazer por você? 1 Ts 2.13 diz que a Bíblia 
+"<emphasis>opera em vós que credes</emphasis>". Do lado de cada escritura, 
+escreva o que a Palavra faz:
+</para>
+<table id="h2-importance-results-table">
+<title>O que o Estudo Bíblico faz para os cristãos?</title>
+<tgroup cols="2">
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry>Referência</entry>
+<entry>Ação</entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry>Ef 5.25
+</entry>
+<entry>santificação -- "..., tendo-a purificado com a lavagem da água, pela 
+palavra"
+</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry>
+At 20.32
+</entry>
+<entry>
+builds up -- " ...the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and 
+to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.  "
+</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry>
+Rm 15.4
+</entry>
+<entry>
+Encoraja -- "porquanto, tudo que dantes foi escrito, para nosso ensino foi 
+escrito, para que, pela constância e pela consolação provenientes das 
+Escrituras, tenhamos esperança"
+</entry>
+</row>
+
+<row>
+<entry>
+Rm 10.17
+</entry>
+<entry>
+Dá fé -- "Logo a fé é pelo ouvir, e o ouvir pela palavra de Cristo"
+</entry>
+</row>
+
+<row>
+<entry>
+1 Co 10.11
+</entry>
+<entry>
+Instrui -- "Ora, tudo isto lhes acontecia como exemplo, e foi escrito para 
+aviso nosso..."
+</entry>
+</row>
+
+<row>
+<entry>
+Mt 4.4
+</entry>
+<entry>
+Nutre -- "Mas Jesus lhe respondeu: Está escrito: Nem só de pão viverá o 
+homem, mas de toda palavra que sai da boca de Deus"
+</entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-liberates"><title>Um Livro que Liberta</title>
+<para>
+Jn.8:32 "<emphasis>and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make 
+you free.</emphasis>"This is usually quoted by itself.  Is this a 
+conditional or unconditional promise? Would it apply to all kinds of 
+knowledge? Find the answers by examining the first half of the sentence, in 
+v.31. "<emphasis>If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of 
+Mine... </emphasis>"</para>
+<para>Nós vemos que isso é uma promessa condicional, especificamente falando da 
+verdade da Palavra de Deus.</para>
+
+<para>A palavra grega para "vento" usada em Efésios 4,14 significa um 
+<emphasis>vento violento</emphasis>. "<emphasis> para que não mais sejamos 
+meninos, inconstantes, levados ao redor por todo vento de 
+doutrina...</emphasis>". Uma coisa que estudar a Bíblia faz por nós é nos 
+firmar na verdade, que não nos deixará sermos "levados ao redor". </para>
+
+<para><emphasis>"Jesus, porém, lhes respondeu: Errais, não compreendendo as 
+Escrituras nem o poder de Deus"</emphasis> Mt 22.29</para>
+<para>Quais as duas coisas que nós precisamos para escapar do erro?</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Palavra de Deus</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Poder de Deus </para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-wars"><title>Um Livro que Luta</title>
+<para>
+Ef. 6.10-18 é uma figura de nossa armadura espiritual.</para>
+<table id="h2-importance-armor-table">
+<title>Armadura Espiritual</title>
+<tgroup cols="2">
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry>Pergunta</entry>
+<entry>Resposta</entry>
+</row></thead>
+<tbody>
+<row><entry>Quantas das armas listas são para defesa?</entry><entry>5</entry></row>
+<row><entry>Quantas são para atacar?</entry><entry>One</entry></row>
+<row><entry>Qual? </entry><entry>a palavra - <foreignphrase>rhema</foreignphrase></entry></row>
+</tbody></tgroup></table>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-exhortations"><title>Exortações</title>
+<para>
+2 Tm 2.15 "Procura apresentar-te diante de Deus aprovado, como obreiro que 
+não tem de que se envergonhar, que maneja bem a palavra da verdade"
+</para>
+<para>
+Cl 3.15 "A palavra de Cristo habite em vós ricamente, em toda a sabedoria; 
+ensinai-vos e admoestai-vos uns aos outros, com salmos, hinos e cânticos 
+espirituais, louvando a Deus com gratidão em vossos corações"
+</para>
+
+<para>Se você é rico em alguma coisa, quanto disso você tem? </para>
+<para>
+Não só um pouquinho!</para>
+
+<para>
+Eccl.12:11-12 "<emphasis>The words of wise men are like goads, and masters 
+of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one 
+Shepherd.  But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is 
+endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the 
+body.</emphasis>"
+</para> </sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-once"><title>Apendice: "De uma vez por todas"</title>
+<blockquote>
+<attribution>John R. W. Stott, <emphasis>Cristo o Controverso,</emphasis>Editora 
+InterVarsity 1978, pp.106-107</attribution> <para>The truth regarding the finality of God's initiative in Christ is conveyed 
+by one word of the Greek Testament, namely the adverb 
+<foreignphrase>hapax</foreignphrase> and 
+<foreignphrase>ephapax</foreignphrase>. It is usually translated in the 
+Authorized Version once, meaning once for all. It is used of what is so done 
+as to be of perpetual validity and never need repetition, and is applied in 
+the NT to both revelation and redemption.  Thus, Jude refers to the faith 
+which was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3), and Romans says, 
+"<emphasis>Christ also died for sins once for all</emphasis>" (Rom.6:10, see 
+also 1 Pe.3:18; Heb.9:26-28). </para> <para>
+Thus we may say that God has spoken once for all and Christ has suffered 
+once for all.  This means that the Christian revelation and the Christian 
+redemption are both alike in Christ complete.  Nothing can be added to 
+either without being derogatory to Christ...  These are the two rocks on 
+which the Protestant Reformation was built -- Gods revealed word without the 
+addition of human traditions and Christ's finished work without the addition 
+of human merits.  The Reformers great watchwords were <foreignphrase>sola 
+scriptura</foreignphrase> for our authority and <foreignphrase>sola 
+gratia</foreignphrase> for our salvation.</para>
+</blockquote>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="h2-importance-supplement"><title>Suplemento: Programas de Leitura Bíblica</title> <para> Here are some easy programs to systematically read your Bible.  You can do 
+more than one at a time if you like, for instance #1 with #4, or #2 with 
+#5.  Vary the program from year to year to keep it fresh!
+</para>
+<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+<listitem><para>Novo Testamento em um Ano: leia um capítulo por dia, 5 dias por semana.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Provérbios em um Mês: leia um capítulo de Provérbios por dia, correspondente 
+ao dia do mês.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Salmos em um mês: leia 5 salmos com intervalo de 30 entre eles por dia. Por 
+exemplo, no vigésimo. dia você lerá Sl 20, 50, 80, 110 e 140.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Salmos e Provérbios em 6 meses: leia Salmos e Provérbios, um capítulo por 
+dia.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Antigo Testamento sem Salmos e Provérbios em 2 anos: se você ler um capítulo 
+por dia do Antigo Testamento, pulando Salmos e Provérbios, você lerá o 
+Antigo Testamento em 2 anos e 2 semanas.
+</para></listitem>
+</orderedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>
+