Bible Podcast and Commentary from Yvon Prehn
from Yvon Prehn to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible
Where do you go for answers to the Big Questions in life?
Ones like where did we come from? What’s my purpose?
What’s the source of all that’s wrong in our world?
Fortunately, God hasn’t left us without answers and the answers to these questions and more are found in the books of Genesis and Job.
Below is the podcast and below that, the text of it.
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How do the Koran and the Book of Mormon compare to the Christian Bible?
They are much more recent than Hindu or Buddhist scriptures, so aren’t they more trustworthy?
According to the writings of each religion, not only are they more trustworthy, but both religions claim that they are the most correct scriptures. By the law of noncontradiction, they can’t both be true. So, how do we evaluate them to determine whether the trustworthiness of each?
That’s what we will talk about in detail in our lesson/podcast today. The podcast is below and below that the transcript of the lesson.
Aren’t all religions the same?
Don’t they lead to the same place and aren’t all their holy books similar?
If you’ve asked questions like these, I’ve some fascinating history that helps answer these questions.
In the last two lessons/podcasts we’ve talked about what is truth and then how historians determine what is true. Please listen to them as background for this and the next lesson/podcast.
In this lesson/podcast we’ll apply what we talked about as we evaluate the historical truth of the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures and compare that with the Christian Bible. I’ll be giving you the background and overview of each religion, some samples of their scriptures, and then a historical analysis of them.
Below is the podcast and following that, notes on it.
How do historians know what is true?
Do they write up whatever sounds good to them?
Or do they listen to legends or whatever do they do?
In a previous lesson, we talked about the importance of truth and how truth is that which corresponds to reality.
We then talked about how history is a useful way to determine what corresponds to reality and how this is foundational to determining if a religion is true. But how do historians go about figuring out what corresponds to reality? Obviously, we don’t have time machines. We can’t go back to the events themselves.
They do it through evidence and in this podcast we’ll talk about the evidence of geography, archeology, artifacts, and documents.
Below is the podcast and below that a transcript of it:
Fake news, conflicting viewpoints, frightening world events, how do we know what to believe?
On one level if the confusion over truth were just confined to the political realm or whatever tragedy consumes the news,
one option would be to block the media noise and hope things will get better.
But we can’t do that in all of life.
Because in spiritual realities, truth matters!
This podcast goes on to talk about what Truth is not, what it is, and how history can help us determine what is true.
Below is the podcast and following that a transcript of the notes.
Is the Bible one story?
Or a collection of related, but sometimes contradictory stories?
Does it matter which one it is?
Today we are going to answer those questions in our lesson today by explaining what’s called “progressive revelation,” a big term with a simple meaning that’s incredibly important for you to understand in determining if God is the ultimate Author of the Bible.
Below is a podcast of the topic, then a video, and then notes–but before them is a downloadable handout of the timeline of how long people lived in the Old Testament that shows the importance of oral transmission of the Biblical content. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it. CLICK on the podcast image to play it and the video image to go to it.
The notes are below the video image.
