ff 4th qtr - part 3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
—– means freedom of error and since the Bible is the Word of God, it means the Bible is inerrant.
Inerrancy
The Bible contains error but teaches no error. It teaches only the SAVING TRUTH.
t or f
true
● The Holy Scriptures started with the revelation of God in the lives of the chosen people.
EVENTS AND EXPERIENCES
● Shows that the authors themselves or the witnesses whom the authors interviewed for their stories first had an experience of the event (first-hand experience).
EVENTS AND EXPERIENCES
Years later, they realized that the second coming of Christ will not be happening any time soon. The apostles needed to preserve what to know about Christ, that is why they started writing. This was the time of the Great Christian Persecution, wherein the apostles started to pass away one by one.
WRITTEN TRADITION
● The wisdom and history of those people who believed in God were passed through oral stories, told and retold in important gatherings.
ORAL TRADITION
● Biblical authors refined and combined the original stories to reflect new events or religious questions that arose during their time.
EDITED TRADITION
This is where the authors inserted original details of the story to show deeper or new meanings of the story.
EDITED TRADITION
● By way of apostolic Tradition, the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.
CANON OF SCRIPTURES
● They had to filter the books because not all were inspired. Though there were many, only a few were chosen.
CANON OF SCRIPTURES
● The official list of inspired books
The Canon of Scriptures
Means “measuring stick;” used to choose what does and does not fit.
canon
-the Church’s official recognition that a book is inspired.
Canonization
- the condition or state of a book having passed the standards for determining divine inspiration, hence being declared as canonical.
Canonicity
PROPHETIC ORIGIN
There should be one prophet that will act as an author.
OLD TESTAMENT
COHERENCE WITH THE TORAH
Another name of the ‘pentacheuch’ or the first five books of the Bible. If there are contents that are against the teachings of Moses, it is not valid.
OLD TESTAMENT
APOSTOLIC ORIGIN
➢ The authors should be the apostles of Jesus.
NEW TESTAMENT
COHERENCE WITH THE ESSENTIAL GOSPEL MESSAGE
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NEW TESTAMENT
DID NOT pass the CRITERIA FOR CANONICITY
Apocryphal Writings
Contents are either HERETICAL or IRRELEVANT
Apocryphal Writings
number of books in the catholic bible
73 books
46 books in the Old Testament (45 if Jeremiah and Lamentations are counted as one)
27 Books in the New Testament
literally means: “second canon.” These refer to the second set of canonical books, or “secondly canonized books/“ Catholics think of these books as inspired, or equal inspiration as the Protocanonicals, having passed the same standards.
Deuterocanonical
number of books in the non catholic bible
66 books
39 Books in the Old Testament
27 Books in the New Testament
Testes means “–”
witness
