Intro To The Bible

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Biblical Innerency

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The bible is without error in the moral and spiritual sense

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What is Divine Inspiration

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The Holy Spirit helps human authors write what God wants them to write

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Biblical exegesis

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Critically interpreting or explaining passages of the bible

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Redaction

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Edited writings to select and adapt written material

to serve an authors purpose

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Hellenism

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Acceptance of Greek culture language and traditions

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Parousia

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2nd coming of Christ

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Torah

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First 5 books of Bible, Hebrew word meaning “law”

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Hebrew people

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Descendants of Abraham and Sarah who become known as Israelites later known as Judeans or Jews

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Literal Sense of the bible

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Meaning conveyed by the words of the exegesis

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Exegete

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Biblical scholar working to interpret meaning of biblical texts

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Spiritual sense

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Goes beyond literal sense of words to consider what realities scripture signifies

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Allegorical Sense

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Looks into how people, events, and things in the literal sense relate back to Christ. It examines Christological significance

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Christological

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Having to do with branch of theology known as Christology (anything to do with Jesus Christ)

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Moral sense

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We ask ourselves “How does this passage instruct us to live a better life?” It focuses on the moral sense of the scripture

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Anagogical sense

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Interprets “realities and events in terms of eternal significance” in what way does this lead of to eternal life?

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Analogy of Faith

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Unity of doctrines from individual doctrines relating to the rest of Revelation

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Fundamentalist approach

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Interpretation of bible strictly based on literalist meaning of bibles words without interpretation of historic setting or when teachings first developed

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Contextualist approach

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Literal sense of scripture informed by science and history

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Canon

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Collection of books the church recognizes as written by God

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Vulgate

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In Latin meaning “common” referred to the bible

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The bible

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A holy book for Christians

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Old Testament

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“Old”- referring to wise not out of date

Focuses on covenant with God and his people

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New Testament

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27 books, focused on the work of Jesus and god fulfilling his covenant through him

Gospels
Letters
Acts

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Pauline letters

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Letters written by Paul

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Deutro-Pauline letters

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Letters written by other apostles in name of Paul

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Pastorals (letters)

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Written in regarding life in the church

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Catholic letters

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Written to the universal

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Sacred Scripture

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Revealed by God and inspired by Holy Spirit to teach us of gods redeeming love

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Sacred Tradition

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Handing on of what Jesus taught and did

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How was the bible written? (4 step process)

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1. Incident occurred 2. People talked about it 3. It was written down 4. It was edited

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2 paragraph historians

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How we write today 1. First paragraph- all facts 2. Second paragraph- writers opinion

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1 paragraph historian

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Blended facts and opinions, writer of the older days

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How long did it take to write the bible?

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About 1000 years, events occurred over a much larger time span

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What do the historical books tell about?

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Jewish history with many trials and triumphs

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The Wisdom Books

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Characterized by poetry with emotion and advice on what it means to be wise

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Prophetic books

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Final section in OT that proclaim messages of religious reformers called by god to stop idolatrous practices and to act justly

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Word for word translation

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Formal equivalency

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Translation of meaning

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Dynamic equivalency