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.
Bible805 will start a series of weekly lessons on that again in Janurary 2023. I have lots of materials on this site on related lessons from the past, but between now and then, I have a series of foundational lessons.
Before we start reading through the Bible
If you believe a message is from God trusting and applying it makes sense. However, if you aren’t sure where the message came from or how we got it, how can we even begin to believe it is from God and worthy of our trust for this life and our eternal salvation? That is what this series is all about.
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there and many valid questions about the Bible, such as:
- How did we get the Bible we have today?
- Isn’t a lot of it, especially in the Old Testament just myth and legend?
- Wasn’t it copied so many times we can’t rely on it?
- Are there books that should be included that aren’t in it?
These questions and many more are covered in the Bible805 series on How We Got the Bible. In it, the lessons cover the history, 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. The true story of how we got our Bibles and why we can trust them is fascinating and will give you confidence and peace as you read it.
The lessons below contain links to however you want to access them, through free videos, podcasts, printouts of notes and charts, and also through paid downloadable lessons available through the Bible805 Academy that you can use to teach others. The Bible805 Academy gives you a way to download videos legally and without ads, plus all associated files of the lessons, (notes, PowerPoints, etc.) so that you can teach them however you want, all for an incredibly low price of $36 a year for ALL the lessons. But again, be assured, don’t need to pay anything, all the basic files below are FREE.
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.
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Below are the lessons in this series, click on the title to go to them:
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
The Time Between the Testaments, and what to do when God seems silent
How we got the New Testament, Part One—History that proves WHEN it was written
Canonicity, the Bible, and Us, How we discover, not determine, God’s will