Wednesday night Bible Study Live-Stream December 17, 2025 starts at 7:00 PM CST Part 4 We conclude this four-part series of “Bible Origins, A Journey Through Time” with some key points to guide personal Bible Study.
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Christmas Traditions
Are Christmas traditions from the Bible or did they come from something else?
Is the Bible God’s Word?
by Mike James
One of the great debates among Christians, philosophers, agnostics, atheists, and other believers in religion is the validity of the Bible. Many Christians would argue that the Bible is the inspired word of God. But even among Christians, there is disagreement. This is a deep subject, but I don’t have time to fully develop it here. I just want to provide a little information to support the Church of God International’s contention that the Bible is the inspired word of God.
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Is it by Faith or is it by works? Are we asking the correct question? Do they oppose one another or do they work in unison?
Alleged Biblical Number Discrepancies
by Mike James
One area of supposed Bible discrepancies pertains to numbers. We will investigate one today.
Look at these two scriptures pertaining to the same event.
2 Samuel 8:4: “And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots” (KJV).
1 Chronicles 18:4: “And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots” (KJV).
Both of these scriptures pertain to David defeating Hadarezer and then taking booty from him.
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Wednesday night Bible Study Live-Stream December 3, 2025 starts at 7:00 PM CST Part 3 In part 3 we discuss the origin of the Swastika, the origin and use of the Cross and the Apocrypha.
Thankful or Entitled?
We live in a world where News Channels won’t say the word “Thanksgiving” anymore. They say “Turkey Day” instead. What happens when we stop being thankful? We become entitled!
More Than I Deserve
by Brian G. Bettes
What am I thankful for? I am thankful that I have been given more than I deserve.
In the United States of America, we just celebrated a national holiday called Thanksgiving. Summarizing the history of the day briefly, it is a day on which, in the fall of 1621 A.D. the Plymouth colonists, the remains of a group of religious separatists from England, hosted a three-day feast with approximately 90 Native Americans.
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