Bible Study Courses

Libery University offers some terriffic courses through their Distance Learning division

www.liberty.edu


They also offer a Home Bible Institute for those not interested in college level work

www.lhbi.org

 

The Charles Stanley Institute also offers web-based learning programs.

And there are a couple of others, but I will have to search for the links.

 

Those are two great sites but do you know of anything that is free online?

 

www.inthebeginning.org has some good stuff.

 

The SBC seminaries offer online courses. You can find links to the Seminaries (I'm sure) by visiting the Southern Baptist Convention website. You should start with survey courses to get an overview.

I suggest you get a biblical dictionary. They will usually give an impartial definition of the terms you are going to run across without pushing one view over another. They also have a good source of historical information that can lead you to other references for study.

Don't get in a hurry in accepting one view over another. Try to understand all points of view.

One final warning. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know compared to how much is out there. And how little time we have to study it.

peace to youraying:

 

Diana--
In your OP you mentioned that you aren't a member of a church, yet in your profile you did list a church name. I'm a little confused about that.

At any rate, although all the above mentioned Bible study courses are probably very good, you still need to be in a good Bible teaching local church. If you're not in one now, you need to pray that God will help you to find one.

Living where you do in RI, there may not be as many good Bible teaching churches as in some other places [which is a real pity since RI was founded by Baptists], but that ought to be a very high priority for you.

Maybe some of our BB friends might be able to recommend some good churches for you in that area.

God bless you in your efforts to find out more about His Word and in a good local church fellowship where you can get solid teaching.

 

You are well on your way:thumbs:

You might also consider looking at "statements of faith" by various church bodies. They will often give scripture to support the statements made. Compare, learn the issues, and then learn the arguments from all sides. Good luck.

peace to youraying:

 

I knew I had a site that was floating around somewhere in my favorites. I don't know anything about it other than it's free, so proceed with caution. I just saved it in my favorites so I could check it out when I got some time and haven't had the time yet, but you might.

http://www.biblicaltraining.org/index.php

 

I came across this today, looks promising.

http://www.biblicaltraining.org/

Rob

opps I see someone beat me to it,:godisgood:

 

Dianna,

go to blueletter.org . look up any verse you want to study, then start clicking on the little blue thingies next to the verse. start with the "C".

 

I would recommend blueletterbible.org as well as www.studylight.org. I use both of them quite a bit.

http://www.e-sword.net/ is free to download and has a lot of great tools to use for study helps.

 

These are so great! Get on their mailing list also but you can order free courses here and they will even grade and critique your answers if you like!

school@mountzion.org