Bible Teaching Tools

How We Got the Bible—an essential foundational series

September 24, 2022 by bible805

Study your Bible — Learn how we got the Bible and you can better trust what you learn in it.

Getting to know, trust, and apply the Bible is one of the most important things you need to do to grow as a follower of Jesus.

Unfortunately, it’s also not a priority for many people today who believe that instead of us working hard to know and understand our God, God should simply always be on call to make us feel better. That’s a sad and deceptive way to live because that isn’t what God is about in our lives and if we constantly whine and demand He always make us happy, it will never happen the way we want it to!

You aren’t like that! You are reading a non-entertaining, sometimes grumpy website that continuously challenges you to put in the time and work to know, trust, and apply the Bible and one of the most important things for you to be able to do that is to read through the Bible in Chronological order. I have lots of materials on this site about that, but I am also teaching a class of wonderful people at my church who haven’t read the Bible that way in the past.

We are working on a foundation to start reading through the Bible in that way after the first of the year. To give them a solid foundation of trust and understanding, I’m going through the topics below and I want to share them with all of you also.

Of particular interest and value to everyone is this series on How We Got the Bible. In it, I’ll share the history, the manuscript evidence, and related information on how and why we have the Bibles we have and why we can trust them to teach us the very words of God.

I can’t encourage you enough to follow these lessons for yourself and to make use of them to teach others—they are all here for you—please take advantage of them.

Below are the lessons done so far, click on them to go to them (I’ll add new ones as I get them done):

How We Got the Old Testament and why we can trust it as the Word of God

How We Got the Apocrypha and the relationship of the Septuagint to it

Here is the schedule for the classes I’ll be teaching in the fall of 2022. The lessons will be posted on the Saturday after the class.

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Videos of Bible805 Lessons—for you to use to teach the Bible

September 24, 2022 by bible805

Would like to teach the Bible? The resources of Bible805 are available for you to be able to do that!

There are two sources for videos of the Bible805 content, one is free and one is a paid source that allows you unlimited rights to show the videos in your church, homeschool, small group, Bible class or any other way you want to use them. The two sources are:

Bible805 YouTube channel

For each of the podcast lessons, I’ll post a full-length video of that lesson on the Bible805 channel and it is a great place to view the content. Do subscribe to the channel as I also periodically post videos of additional content or short teaching and inspirational videos.

The videos on the YouTube channel serve as a preview of what is available as an extended teaching module on the Bible805 Academy.

Bible805 Academy

I created this additional source of the Bible805 videos , plus additional resources for those of you who want to download them and use them in your teaching or for additional study without the distractions of YouTube (though I am so thankful YouTube is there for me to post them free of charge).

In addition to an advertisement and distraction-free video, with rights for you to use it as you want, the lessons (for the newer ones, I’m catching up adding all resources to the older ones) on the Bible 805 Academy include:

A 1080p video
An MP3 audio file
PowerPoint file of the lesson
A PDF of Notes/Transcript of the lesson
A PDF of Questions on the lesson for individual study or group discussion
Two digital files of images and PR text you can use to promote the topic
Unlimited reproduction rights of the video and handouts within your church, group, ministry, or business.

These materials make a complete teaching package for you to adapt and use in whatever setting you want.

Each of the lesson modules is available for the extremely low price of $4.99 each or $36 for a year’s subscription of ALL the lesson modules available on the site because I want anyone, anywhere to be able to use these to teach others about God’s Word.

If even that price is too much for you if you are a small church or mission or for whatever reason, you don’t need to explain, simply email me at yvonprehn@gmail.com and I’ll give you a free subscription to it.

If on the other hand, the Lord has blessed you financially and you would like to support the ministry of Bible805 and help cover the many costs associated with the production of them, CLICK HERE.

How We Got the Apocrypha and its relationship to the Septuagint

September 23, 2022 by bible805

Lesson on The Apocrypha — This lesson is quite complex, but worth the time to understand how the Apocrypha and the Septuagint are related.

Many people are familiar with the books that are placed in some Bibles between the Old Testament and the New Testament but what are they and are they important for us to read to learn about God and to grow in our Christian lives?

The best way to answer those questions correctly is to look at the history of when and how they were written and how they relate to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament that was the Bible Jesus and Paul used and quoted from. If we didn’t have the Septuagint, we most likely would not have the Apocrypha in Bibles today as it was primarily their inclusion with the Septuagint that Jerome used to translate the Bible into the Latin Vulgate that they were considered part of the Old Testament scriptures.

Evaluated on their own, they were never included in the Old Testament canon.

In addition to false teachings in them including prayers for the dead and alms as contributing to salvation, you’ll see from this lesson how on the basis of their manuscript history alone, they have no place in the canonical Old Testament.

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The Two Resource Sites for Bible805—to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible—AND to be able to teach it yourself!

September 19, 2022 by bible805

For those of you who have used the resources on the Bible805 website, podcast, and video, I have expanded them for you and want to tell you about them all here.

Following the Video is the text explaining why I created the two sites.

Why I put together the TWO sites

People desperately need to know God’s Word today!

Church attendance in many places continues to decline and studies show those who go to church live lives little different than those who don’t.

There are endless lists of what’s wrong in churches and societies.

In the midst of that I remember Jesus’ words when He challenged his audience by telling them that they were in error because they didn’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

God hasn’t changed, the church is still the Body of Christ, and Jesus is the one way of salvation, but I think we’ve lost our conviction of those truths because we don’t KNOW God’s Word.

And helping you to get to know, trust, and apply it is what Bible805 is all about!

How I can help you do that with Bible805 materials

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How We Got the Old Testament, and why we can trust it as the Word of God

September 18, 2022 by bible805

The Old Testament makes up a large section of our Bibles, but though many people are familiar with the first part of it with the stories of Creation and the early characters in Biblical history, many people stop there.

Unfortunately also is the idea many people have of the Old Testament is that it is a collection of ancient stories and fables and not something based on true history that can be objectively verified. This idea is unfortunate because nothing could be further from the truth!

The Old Testament can be proven to be historically valid and an essential foundation for the Christian faith. This lesson will demonstrate how it was put together and the sources for it including both oral history (including such interesting facts including that Adam was still alive when Noah’s grandfather was alive—and you think your grandpa has great stories to tell!) and written texts, plus the archeological basis for it that includes a fascinating overview of Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham. You’ll have a very different view of what Abraham was called out of and how that influenced his life after this lesson.

This lesson is part of a series on How We Got Our Bibles. It is not only a fascinating study, filled with images, archeological discoveries and ancient stories, but included are extensive charts, maps, and notes that will give you confidence in your Bibles—that you can trust them to contain the Words of God essential for our eternal salvation and instruction on how to live lives that are pleasing to God today.

Below are the notes, charts, podcast, and video on this lesson:

Chart of Long Lives of Old Testament Characters — Click on the chart to download a copy of it.

Comments on Incorrect Dating of Old Testament Prophets — Click on the image for a download of it.

Long lives of Old Testament characters Incorrect Dating of OT Prophets, et al

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