Unit 1 Devine Revelation

Question 1

What does the word “Bible” mean?

Answer 1

“Books”

Question 2

How many books, and sections is the Old testament divided into?

Answer 2

46 books, and 4 sections. Law, Historical, Wisdom and Prophetic books:

Question 3

How many books are in the New Testament and how many section is made up of?

Answer 3

27 books, The gospels, the acts of the apostles, the epistles or letter, and the book of revelation.

Question 4

What do we mean by Canon of the Sacred Scripture? How many books are there in the Canon?

Answer 4

73 books, they are books that have met apostolic origin, universal acceptance, and consistent litgurical use.

Question 5

Why are the Protestant and Catholic bibles different? And by what measure?

Answer 5

They are different because the Protestant bible has 7 less books. This is because they decided to not include them since they werent in the og hebrew books.

Question 6

Why should we read the bible?

Answer 6

1. Divine Revelation
2. Salvation history
3. Jesus the word of God
4. Power of scripture
5. Out guidebook

Question 7

How often should we read the bible?

Answer 7

We should have read the bible frequently.

Question 8

Define Divine Inspiration

Answer 8

Its the holy spirit helping the authors of the bible write the bible so that Gods word is spoken through the bible.

Question 9

Did the holy spirit dictate the bible word for word?

Answer 9

No, it uses the creativity and special literay devices to get the true meaning across in a different way.

Question 10

Define biblical inerrancy

Answer 10

The bible is written by God therefor the specific truths it wishes to convey arent wrong.

Question 11

What are the most important truths revealed in the bible?

Answer 11

Religious truths not scientific truths.

Question 12

Whats the difference between a fundamentalist approach and a contextualist approach?

Answer 12

Fundamentalist approach is very literal, contextualist approach takes context into account.

Question 13

How can the two christian creation stories be true? What are some shared religious truths?

Answer 13

They both explain a metaphorical way God created the world and how he intended for humanity to have a special role in it. Other similarities is that God is the source of all that exists and heavens and earth was separated on the “first” day.

Question 14

Define Exegesis

Answer 14

Interpreting the true meaning of the scripture.

Question 15

Whats is the difference between exegesis and eisegesis?

Answer 15

Exegesis is the objective truth of the bible, eisegesis is when we subjectively add our own truths.

Question 16

Define Hermeneutics

Answer 16

The process of applying the biblical text to the modern world.

Question 17

What is a bible concordance, commentary, and search engine? Why use does each tool have?

Answer 17

Concordance has an alphabetical list of words. Commentary is a written intrepertation, and a search engine is just for searching things up.

Question 18

What is revealed about God in exodus?

Answer 18

God is revealed to be a loving, kind God.

Question 19

How is God seen differently in Exodus compared to other Gods at the time?

Answer 19

Other Gods dont really care for their people and require offerings, where as god just wants to love people and have them follow in his world.

Question 20

What are the four senses of Scripture?

Answer 20

Literal
Allegorical(how it points to christ)
Moral
Anagogical(Afterlife)

Question 21

Which sense of scripture should always be done first?

Answer 21

Literal

Question 22

Define eschatology

Answer 22

The christian theory of the afterlife, death, and judgement.

Question 23

Explain the importance of the Old Testament in light of New Testament.

Answer 23

Just be smart u got this

Question 24

Define Typology

Answer 24

The study of how things in the Old Testament people, symbols, events, all foreshadow the New Testament

Question 25

How is Jonah a type of christ?

Answer 25

He got swallowed for 3 days by a whale foreshadowing Jesus’ crucifixion and rez 3 days later.

Question 26

Identity another Old Testament type of christ.

Answer 26

Moses. When he was on hill the preaching about the 10 commandments and Jesus with the sermon on the hill talking about the beatidudes.

Question 27

Describe the roles of a prophet, priest, king

Answer 27

Prophet (messager sent by god) Priest (Mediator between god & ppl) King( supreme authority over smth)

Question 28

What is a prophet?

Answer 28

Messenger or spokesperson for God, primary role is to keep the ppl in check.

Question 29

What is a prophet.

Answer 29

Messenger or spokesperson for God, primary role is to keep the ppl in check.

Question 30

List 10 characteristics of a prophet

Answer 30

The are norm ppl The hear a call from God Some reist the call The go through an initiation The speak on the half of the oppres The use shock tatics Their message makes them unpop The go through discouragement They are dedicated to Gods work They sometimes die cause of work

Question 31

What are some important prophets in the OT?

Answer 31

Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, John the baptist.

Question 32

How can you be a messenger of God?

Answer 32

You got this g dw

Question 33

Define sacred Tratdition

Answer 33

The teachings that the apostles passed down orally through their preaching.

Question 34

How did St Paul teach others the sacred truths that were revealed to him?

Answer 34

Through his preaching and writings.

Question 35

When speaking to the Jews how did he try showing them Jesus is the mesiah?

Answer 35

He reasoned with them using scripture.

Question 36

What are the two sources of god’s revelation according to the church?

Answer 36

The two sources are the bible and sacred tradition

Question 37

What is the Magisterium?

Answer 37

The bishops in union with the pope, together they protect and teach the original meaning of the scriptures.