Do you wish you had more time for Bible study? Either for yourself or for when you prepare to teach?
Do you wish you were able to understand the Greek and Hebrew words of the original manuscripts? [Read more…]
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Do you wish you had more time for Bible study? Either for yourself or for when you prepare to teach?
Do you wish you were able to understand the Greek and Hebrew words of the original manuscripts? [Read more…]
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In our previous lesson, we looked at the big, theological word “Hermeneutics” that in summary means the guidelines we use to properly understand the Bible so that we can apply it in the way God wants it applied. [Read more…]
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Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpreting the Bible—in other words helping us understand what it means for our everyday lives. [Read more…]
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After the decision was made as to which books would go into our Bibles, it was still a long, complex, and difficult time before most people had what we take for granted—our own Bibles in the language we speak. [Read more…]
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Who decided what books are in the Bible?
Many have heard the term “Canonicity” used with this topic—what does it mean? [Read more…]
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A primary criticism of the New Testament is that critics say that Christians intentionally left out and/or suppressed certain writings, primarily what we call the Gnostic Gospels and that they should be part of our New Testament and aren’t. [Read more…]
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Many people assume the New Testament was written hundreds of years after the life of Christ. If that was true, how then do we know that what was talked about in the Bible, His miracles and especially His resurrection from the dead, how do we know those aren’t real, but myths and legends that developed many years after He lived? [Read more…]
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In the previous lesson in our series on How We Got Our Bibles, we looked at the Apocrypha, the series of books written between the Old and New Testaments, and the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible done at that time. [Read more…]
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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.
One of the most important things to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible is to read through the Bible in Chronological order, where you see God’s entire redemptive story of salvation from beginning to end. [Read more…]
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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 Youtube and the second is the Bible805 Academy a 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. [Read more…]
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Many people are familiar with the books that are placed in some Bibles between the Old Testament and the New Testament, also known as the Apocrypha, but what are they, and are they important for us to read to learn about God and to grow in our Christian lives are questions, not many take the time to answer. [Read more…]
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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. [Read more…]