Getting to Know your Bible. >> There is a God. He is alive. “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host” (Psa 33.6), but he has also provided a written revelation for all mankind—the means by which we can come to know him, follow him, and eventually live with him after death. “Your word,” the psalmist wrote, “is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psa 119.105). The B.I.B.L.E. could accurately be described as Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.