Bible 805

 Even Bible scholars admit lots of other books were written at the time the Bible documents were written, how do we know we have the right ones in our Bible? Didn’t a group of church leaders get together at a council or something and just make a decision on that? To answer, first let’s review what we’ve done so far. We started with looking at ancient manuscripts, dating them—the foundation fo...

   The New Testament is a reliable historical record of Jesus and the early Christian church. For purposes of our time and study, we will focus primarily on what these documents tell us about Jesus—we don’t have time to do more and honestly, if what they tell us about Jesus can’t be trusted, the rest really doesn’t matter. To do that we will first establish the historical reliability of...

   After listening to our last podcast on the historical uniqueness of the Christian Bible….you may be thinking….. BIG CLAIMS there, but can you prove your theory? Does secular history REALLY anchor the stories in the Bible in real history? Not only does secular history anchor the stories in real history, but we have many exciting examples to share as I answer those questions today with...

 In our last podcast we talked about how history helps us determine the truth of Biblical documents. And if that’s so doesn’t history do the same for all religions? • Why do Christians think their sacred books are any different than the sacred scripture of other religion? • Aren’t they all the same anyway, slightly different messages, but all leading to the same God? • Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and...

Isn’t the Bible full of errors? Hasn’t it been copied so many times nobody has any idea what the original was? HOW can history help us decide what’s true and what isn’t? Answering those questions is what this podcast is about. As I was thinking about it, I realized history is like an anchor. Just as an anchor keeps a ship from floating off in any direction, so too, history can help tie what we bel...

Was Jesus a zombie? Welcome to Bible 805 and this special podcast in honor of the Halloween season. Please understand, there is no irreverence or shock value intended with this question. It was an honestly asked question from someone who was totally unfamiliar with church and we’ll answer it today. When you think about it calmly, with the viewpoint of someone outside the church,"Was Jesus a Zombie...

How do we know what’s True? More than ever it’s an important question. Fake news, conflicting viewpoints, how do we know what to believe? On one level if the confusion over truth were just confined to the political realm, one option would be to block the media noise, wait for the next election cycle, and hope things will get better. But we can’t do that in all of life. Our individual lives, those...