Understanding The Bible Part One The Canons Of The BibleEdward Hahnenberg
The first in a six-part series examining how to understand the Bible using the historical-critical method. The subject of Part One is the Canons of the Old and New Testament, how they were decided, and the difference between the Catholic and Protestant canons.
Understanding The Bible Part One The Canons Of The BibleEdward Hahnenberg
The first in a six-part series examining how to understand the Bible using the historical-critical method. The subject of Part One is the Canons of the Old and New Testament, how they were decided, and the difference between the Catholic and Protestant canons.
Bible Compilation, Transmission and AlterationSabeel Ahmed
Objective study of the compilation and transmission of the Bible. Many Christians are unaware of the history of the bible and thus assume it is preserved and the word of God. This presentation will examine how the bible was compiled and the changes that took place from the time of the first letters of Paul till our time.
This presentation describes how the Bible was compiled, discusses why certain books were omitted (such as the gnostic gospels), and ends with a discussion of Bible translations
All about the bible, how it was put together, why certain books were left out, how do we know that it\'s divine, what about the Da Vinci Code, dealing with "contradictions", etc.
Bible Compilation, Transmission and AlterationSabeel Ahmed
Objective study of the compilation and transmission of the Bible. Many Christians are unaware of the history of the bible and thus assume it is preserved and the word of God. This presentation will examine how the bible was compiled and the changes that took place from the time of the first letters of Paul till our time.
This presentation describes how the Bible was compiled, discusses why certain books were omitted (such as the gnostic gospels), and ends with a discussion of Bible translations
All about the bible, how it was put together, why certain books were left out, how do we know that it\'s divine, what about the Da Vinci Code, dealing with "contradictions", etc.
MANAGE YOUR PRIORITIES
80% of the time -work where you are strongest
15%of the time-work you are learning
5%%of the time-work in other necessaries.
If you want to influence others, you must always lead yourself first. If you can't you have no credibility. The better you are at making sure you're doing what you should be doing, the better change you have for making an impact on others and being successful
A good leader is someone who leads his people in the time of hardship. But a great leader is someone who sees the future of this team where they are going and know how they achieve their goals.
Our Personal Commitment to Jesus demands that we desire to know Him more and more clearly and accurately. Such a relationship of intimacy should be cultivated and pressed onto through enlightenment of the eyes of our understanding. Our passion and zeal for knowing Him should be guided through light in order not to fall in the trap of false intimacy but know Him accurately the way He wants to be known.
The following data give the selling price, squarefootage, number.docxcherry686017
The following data give the selling price, square
footage, number of bedrooms, and age of houses
that have sold in a neighborhood in the past 6
months. Develop three regression models to predict
the selling price based upon each of the other factors
individually. Which of these is best?
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PRICE($) FOOTAGE BEDROOMS (YEARS)
64,000 1,670 2 30
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An Overview of Christian Scriptures or the Bible (Cf. William Portier, Tradition and Incarnation (Paulist Press, 1994), 97-147.)
The term “Scripture” is from the Latin and means “writing.” In a similar vein, the term “Bible” is from the Greek and means “books.” What follows are responses to a few questions regarding the Bible.
Who composed the Bible?
One needs to think a little differently about the authors of the books in the Bible than one thinks about authors of contemporary writings such as Stephen Prothero’s composing God Is Not One. The focus on biblical authorship is not to celebrate the genius of particular individuals who decided to publish their personal views on God. Many individuals had a hand in composing the final versions of the books of the Bible, but these individuals wrote them in the context of their communities of faith, drawing their material from a variety of written and oral sources passed on in the communities of faith. The Christian Bible has as its primary purpose witnessing to and passing on the faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, revealed in Jesus Christ. The writings are always in service to the Church’s faith in Jesus. It is the community of faith who produced the Bible and continues to make the Bible a living Word through its entering into the text as the normative source for understanding how God has worked, is working, and will continue to be present in the communal and personal lives of the ecclesia in the world.
What do we know about the authors of the New Testament?
We know, for example, that an individual, Paul of Tarsus, a convert after Jesus’s death and resurrection, wrote letters to some of the communities where his preaching inspired believers to form some of the earliest Christian communities. The Letter to the Galatians is an example of one of those letters. Paul’s powerful message communicated in his letters focused on the Good News of salvation and new life found through faith in the risen Christ. These letters are some of the earliest Christian writings that we have. Other letters are attributed to apostles whose names are mentioned in the Gospels, especially Peter, John, and James. The Gospels too are associated with the names of four individuals, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These names are of individuals who were close to Jesus ...
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
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SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
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The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
2. INTRODUCTION
The Bible is the only book in the world which units all Christian Religions in
the World.
Many Christians especially protestants use it as the only source of faith
(Sola Scriptura) unlike Catholics who regard it as one of the sources of
faith, in addition to the Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium.
The Bible is regarded as the Word of God, but What does this mean?
3. THE BIBLE
The word “Bible” come from the Greek
“τὰ βιβλία (ta biblìa)”, which is a plural of
“βιβλίον (biblìon)”, which means booklet.
Literally, the Bible can be referred to as
booklets. The greek word “τὰ βιβλία”
which is plural was later used in
ecclesiastical latin in singular as “Biblia”.
Therefore, from the latin word Biblia, we
derive the word Bible.
So, the Bible is referred to as a collection
of sacred texts or scriptures.
Theologically, it is referred to as Sacred
scriptures.
5. To understand sacred Scripture, we must first
understand what revelation is.
Revelation come from the word “Reveal”.
Hence Revelation is how God, the creator makes
Himself known to his creatures.
God has made Himself Known to His Creatures
especially Human beings in three different ways;
1. Through the material Universe
2. Through the Natural Moral Law
3. Through public Revelation
6. God Reveals Himself through the Material
Universe
By use of our reason, we can comprehend the obvious order, beauty and
power of the material world.
Many times we exclaim, what a beautiful flower! Wow, it’s a good scenery!
Such comments express an appreciation of the order, power and beauty of
nature and acknowledgement that there must be an all-powerful divine
being responsible for the universe.
St. Paul affirms this in his letter to the Romans 1:20, “Ever since the
creation of the World, His invisible nature, namely; His eternal power and
deity has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made”.
So, scripture tells us that creation reveals the creator.
7. God Reveals Himself Through the
Natural Law
Natural Law is the Original moral sense which enables man to discern by
reason the good and the evil, the truth and the lie.
The natural law is written and engraved in the heart of each and every
man, because it is human reason that moves us to do good and forbid evil.
In Romans 2:15, St. Paul calls it the law written in our hearts.
The demands of natural law, reflect God’s eternal law, that is, what the
creator expects of His Creatures.
8. God Reveals Himself Through Public
Revelation
God also revealed His will and Nature by communicating to inspired
prophets. In Exodus 3:14, God revealed to Moses that His name was “I
AM”.
He also directly revealed the moral law when he gave Moses the ten
commandments at Mountain Sinai. (Deuteronomy 5:6-21)
This type of revelation is what we refer to as deposit of faith, and it binds
everyone.
Public revelation comes in two forms;
1. Sacred Tradition
2. Sacred scripture
9. Sacred Tradition is divine revelation that was not
written down, but which the church has
faithfully transmitted from the beginning.
10. Sacred scripture is divine public revelation
written down under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit. Therefore, the Bible is referred to as the
Word of God, because it was inspired by the
Holy Spirit.
12. Easy Access to sacred Scripture should be
provided for the Christian faithful.
The church has thus accepted as her own that
the ancient Greek translation of the Old
Testament which is called the “Septuangint
(LXX)” 250-125 BC,
It also has special respect to the other Eastern
translations and Latin ones, especially the
“Vulgate”.
13.
14. During Vatican II, the church in her effort to
promote accessibility of the word of God permitted
the translation of the Bible into different
languages, basing on the original script. That is
why Today we have the Bible in English and our
local languages.
15. For one to have easy access of texts in the Bible, he
or she needs to have knowledge of the “Canon of the
Bible”.
By “Canon of the Bible”, we mean the authoritative
list of the inspired books that make up the Bible.
This canon was approved at the synod of Rome in AD
382 during the reign of Pope Damascus, and later at
the councils of Hippo in 393AD and Carthage in
397AD.
17. The word testament as used in the Bible
refers to a pact or an agreement or a
covenant.
The Old Testament refers to a pact God
made with the Patriarchs and the Jewish
people.
The New Testament refers to the covenant
that God made with all people.
18. The Old Testament Canon
In 382AD, Pope Damascus wrote a decree
listing 46 books of the Old Testament and 27
books of the New testament as the Canon of
the Bible.
The 46 books were the only ones used by the
Christians for 16 centuries as the canon for the
Old Testament and were Virtually uncontested.
19. However, in 1529, Martin Luther during the
protestant reformation, proposed to adopt the canon
used by Rabbinic Judaism of 39 books as the Old
Testament Canon.
This why you find that
protestant Bibles have 39 books while Catholic Bibles
have 46 books.
As a reader, you need to know which Bible you are
using.
20. The Old Testament Canon is Divided
into 4 categories of book;
Books of the law (Pentateuch)
Historical books
Wisdom Books
The Prophets
21. THE CHRISTIAN OLD TESTAMENT
ORTHODOX CATHOLIC PROTESTANT
The Law
Genesis Genesis Genesis
Exodus Exodus Exodus
Leviticus Leviticus Leviticus
Numbers Numbers Numbers
Deuteronomy Deuteronomy Deuteronomy
22. Historical Books
Joshua Joshua Joshua
Judges Judges Judges
Ruth Ruth Ruth
I Samuel I Samuel I Samuel
II Samuel II Samuel II Samuel
I Kings I Kings I Kings
II Kings II Kings II Kings
I Chronicles I Chronicles I Chronicles
II Chronicles II Chronicles II Chronicles
I Esdras (A)
Ezra Ezra Ezra
Nehemiah Nehemiah Nehemiah
Tobit Tobit
Judith Judith
Esther Esther Esther
Maccabees I Maccabees I
Maccabees II Maccabees II
Maccabees III
23. Wisdom Books
Job Job Job
Psalms (151) Psalms (150) Psalms (150)
Proverbs Proverbs Proverbs
Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs Song of Songs Song of Songs
Wisdom Wisdom
Sirach Sirach
24. The Prophets
Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah
Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah
Lamentations Lamentations Lamentations
Baruch Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah
Ezekiel Ezekiel Ezekiel
Daniel Daniel Daniel
Hosea Hosea Hosea
Joel Joel Joel
Amos Amos Amos
Obadiah Obadiah Obadiah
Jonah Jonah Jonah
Micah Micah Micah
Nahum Nahum Nahum
Habakkuk Habakkuk Habakkuk
Zephaniah Zephaniah Zephaniah
Haggai Haggai Haggai
Zechariah Zechariah Zechariah
Malachi Malachi Malachi
49 46 39
25. The New Testament
The canon for the New Testament is the
same for both Catholics and Protestants. It is
comprised of 27 books.
These books are divided into 4 categories;
the gospels,
the History of the early Church,
The Epistles (letters)
The book of Prophecy.
26.
27. TEXTUAL DIVISION OF THE BIBLE
Originally, the Bible was not divided into chapters and verses as we know it
today.
In the 13th Century, Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton was the
first to divide the Bible into chapters.
In 1528, Santes Pagninus divided the Old testament chapters into verses.
In 1551, Robert Etienne divided the New Testament chapters into verses.
28. summary
In order to access the texts in the Bible easily, you need to do the following;
Know which type of Bible you are using, whether Protestant or Catholic
Examples of protestant Bibles include, Good News Bible, King James Bible
Examples of Catholic Bibles include; Holy Bible (Revised Standard, version), Jerusalem
Bible, New American Bible
Know the Books in the Bible and in which Canon they fall.
The Catholic Canon of the Bible consists of 46 books in the Old Testament
The Protestant Canon of the Bible has 39 books in the Old Testament
Both Catholic and Protestant canons have 27 books in the New Testament
Therefore, the Protestant Bible has 66 books while the Catholic Bible has 73 books
Distinguish a Chapter from a verse
Verses fall under Chapters
29. conclusion
I believe that after this class, your love for the Bible has tremendously
increased.
So, Each one of you should open and read John 15:16, which encourages
us to bear fruit which will last.
As a Christian, remember to get familiar with your Bible and read at least
one chapter every day.
When you do this, you will find it easy to access texts in the Bible, since the
Bible will be your daily companion.
You are now ambassadors of the “Word”
30. Remember to Read your Bible
and pray every day, if you want
to grow.
