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THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD

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THE BIBLE ISTHE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD

GOD’S REVELATION OF WHO HE IS AND HOW WE ARE TO BE SAVED

The Scriptures(means writing) of the Christian people

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Bible is from the Greek word “biblia” which

means booksIt is a collection

There are many different kinds of writing:

History

Poetry

Proverbs

Songs

Gospels

Letters

There are a TOTAL of 73 books in the Catholic Bible

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The Bible has two MAJOR PARTS

Old Testament: 46 books

Tells about salvation history prior to the coming of Jesus

Specifically about the creation of the world, man’s misuse of free will, God’s promise of redemption through a Messiah,

Tells about God’s relationship with his chosen people the Jews(also called the Hebrews or Israelites) and the history of that relationship up to Jesus time

Is written in the HEBREW language

Sometimes called the Hebrew Scriptures

New Testament: 27 books

About the coming of the Messiah, God establishing a new covenant with this people

contains the Jesus story as well as the spreading of the good news throughout the ancient world and the letters written to those people

Most famous for the 4 gospels

Is written in Greek but translated into Latin in the days of the early Church by St. Jerome

Sometimes called the Christian Scriptures

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The Pentateuch Also called the Torah

First FIVE books of the Bible

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Sacred to Jews

Kept in the Ark of the Covenant

Contains the Ten Commandments and all the dietary and other laws of the Jewish people

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Catholic View of the Bible

It teaches religious truths….it is, then, not a book of history or science.

Consider the story in Genesis of Creation.


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