ABSTRACT
The Bible is the major source book of religious teaching in a culture. The church, when drawing up its education programmes, and local education authority syllabus committees generally, have tended to reflect this central position in assuming that much Bible material should be used in the religious education of children. The significance of the Bible is seen by younger children to be its physical nature or its associated use. Concepts of what kind of book the Bible is and how it came to be written, appear to be related to what degree children think the Bible to be true. One aim of religious education is to help children to see the personal relevance of what is being taught. The picture of how the pupil thinks about the nature of the Bible, its origins, its veracity and its relevance can be seen fairly clearly from the concepts the people have just examined.
