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About Us

Bible in the Classroom is a nonprofit organization. Our ministry is to spread awareness in Texas that the Bible can legally be taught in public school. Please help us get the word out.
 

 At the start of the 2009/2010 school year Texas state law allows Texas school districts to offer enrichment curriculum that includes “religious literature, including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament and Its impact on history and literature. This law was approved by a collective vote of 167-3, by the Texas House and Senate, in 2007 (HB 1287).

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It was then Bible in the Classroom began asking North Texas school districts to offer the elective class, The BIble and Its Influence on Western Civilization. Each year the list of school districts continues to grow.

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We believe students learn at profound levels when they are highly engaged. 

This course does an excellent job of engaging students into understanding the influence the Bible has had on Western Civilization by explaining how Bible characters and stories influence our literature, art, music, history and much more.

Classic literature that is directly influenced by the Bible includes a vast array of commonly read books and plays such as:

  • Moby Dick (Melville)

  • Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)

  • Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth (Shakespeare); without the Bible there would be no Shakespeare.

  • The Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)

  • Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

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Literary techniques are used throughout the Bible . . . such as:

  • Metaphor - (Jesus & Middle East) "I am the vine" & "I am the door"

  • Personification - Human characteristics to inanimate objects “the hills clapped their hands”

  • Hyperbole - An intentional distortion of the truth, like the parable of the muster seed Jesus uses in Matthew 13:31-32

Many of the most famous works of art for many centuries was greatly influenced by the Bible. 

  • Michelangelo's The David & the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

  • Leonardo di Vinci's The Last Supper

  • Botticelli The Adoration of the Magi

Music from the Renaissance through modern times has been influenced by the bible. 

  • Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

  • Jesus is Just Alright by The Doobie Brothers

  • Knock Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door by Guns n' Roses

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After studying a contemporary Bob Marley song a student in Plano ISD stated, "Wow! You know I have heard that song 100 times and never realized it was a song about King David!" 

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The United States foundational documents came to be and why without the Bible we would not be an exceptional country.

Other great leaders throughout American History have taken notes from the bible.

  • Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech

  • Martin Luther King's  1968 "Promised Land" speech

Heads of college English departments have said the # 1 Book incoming freshman should read is the Bible.

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One English teacher said, "It is hard to teach American Literature without Bible references."

English professors from Rice, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford believe students who understand the literary aspects from the Bible actually have a major academic advantage. 

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This course will offer students an academic advantage heading into college and on placement exams.  

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