The Bible

This lecture provides a brief overview of the structure of the Bible and how this organization came about over the centuries.

This lecture provides a brief overview of the many themes that run through the Bible. That Jesus Christ is the theme of the entire Bible is emphasized and how the Old Testament points towards Him is discussed.

This lecture continues the discussion of Jesus Christ as the theme of the entire Bible. The idea that Jesus is explicitly revealed in the New Testament is discussed.

This lecture begins to deal with how we got our Bible. Here, we discuss the first step, the Inspiration of the scriptures, or how God chose to convey His Word to us through the men the wrote the Bible.

This lecture deals with why God chose to communicate with us via the written word and the process of how God's written word was passed along to us.

This lecture looks at how the early church, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, determined which of the many writings available to it were to be considered as scripture.

In this lecture, we explore the reliability of the scriptures from the perspective of the transmission process. We look at the reasons why we can trust in the reliability of these ancient documents.

In this lecture we discuss how the manuscripts have been prepared and preserved. These processes give us a high degree of confidence in the reliability of the Biblical documents and that what we see today is accurate.

A brief summary of the class and perspective on the Bible as God's inspired Word to us.