Catholic Bibles have extra books between the Old and New Testaments called the Apocrypha–why is that and why don’t Protestant Bibles have them? You’ll find out in this lesson. Following is a video below and handouts below that.
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The Old Testament is not the only part of the Bible that has books that aren’t correct that some folks believe should be part of the Bible. In the Old Testament we already talked about why we don’t have the Apochrypha in our Bibles and this lesson will show why the Gnostic Gospels are not […]
This is the final lesson on the series on Canonicity, what books are in our Bible and why. What’s most important to remember is that God determines the content of the Bible and people recognize it. This lesson discusses the Five Keys that were used to determine canonicity. Following is the Video of the lesson […]
This is part of a question that was asked in our Coastline Life in 3D class and we answer it in the video below with information from both the Bible and church history. Our actions can have a tremendous impact on our world. We tend to live out what we believe and as you’ll see […]
We’ve seen how it is a fact that many early historians referred to Jesus. So we know he lived in the first century. However, that isn’t enough–what did they think of him? Critics of Christianity say that early on people thought of Jesus simply as a man. In fact Dan Brown goes so far as […]
To help answer the question about disputed passages this video will show you how to evaluate Biblical manuscripts, how they are dated and what that means to us. This video shows you actual manuscripts and you’ll see it really isn’t difficult or mysterious to date them. You’ll also see the three key manuscripts that are […]
Josephus is one of the best-known of first century historians, but he was far from the only person who talked about Jesus in his writings. What is really important to remember when you are talking to someone or even for yourself when you consider these various authors is that at this point you do not […]
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