the nature of the bible
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this was our report regarding the Nature of The Bible. It is mostly based on the reference Kaloob.TRANSCRIPT
The Nature of the
Bible
TRED3GROUP 1
Shared Memories
• The Bible is an account of the Jews and Christians’ journey with God who shares his life with his people and draws them together towards their eternal destiny.
• It is a record of people’s past experiences woven into a life-story.
Shared Memories
• Unity among Jews and Christians
• Uniqueness, identity…”their story”
• Memory re-enacts in our lives the values found in those great events. It gives us hope.
Shared Memories
Word of God
• What kind of a reality is the Bible?
• It is divine revelation in human expression, i.e., God’s word expressed in human words
• Work of God and the work of human hands written in faith and can be understood only in faith
Word of God
• For a believer, divine revelation is understood as God’s self-gift to human beings which reaches its goal in a shared life
Word of God
• The Vatican II document, Dei Verbum(21) affirms that it is through the Bible that God speaks
• Through the Bible, God discloses Himself inviting us to interiority through mutual self-disclosure
Word of God
• When a believer reads and contemplates on the word of God, the proper attitude is: “Speak, O Lord, Your servant is listening”
Word of God
• The Bible is a Divine Revelation. In the Bible we find out what God wants mankind to know about Himself and His plan.
• The Bible is the only written revelation of God to man
Word of God
• No one has ever successfully refuted the Bible. Many mock the Bible but avoid challenging it point by point. No one who has done in-depth research, honestly examining the evidence for the Bible's inspiration and truthfulness, has been able to disprove the Bible.
Word of God
• History records many who set out to disprove the Bible, who instead became believers.
Word of God
Divine Revelation
• What is Revelation?
• Revelation is supernatural communication from God to man, either oral or written, though usually restricted to its written aspect, that is, to the whole contents of Holy Scripture.
Divine Revelation
• What is Divine Revelation?
• The comprehensive reality of God's self-gift to humanity and human acceptance of it.
• God is revealing Himself to people and people are subjected to accept what God is telling them
Divine Revelation
• The Bible therefore becomes a symbol of God's revelation to people.
• The Bible serves as a means for people to have a deeper encounter with God's self-gift.
Divine Revelation
• The Word of God may not be reduced to only "written texts", because doing so would lead to us being rigid and close-minded about the Bible.
• The Bible, as God's means of divine revelation to us, calls us into personal communication and involvement with Him.
Divine Revelation
Library of Books
• The Bible is a library
• 66 books
• divided into 2 main sections: The OT and NT
• Testament = promise, contract or agreement
Library of Books
• OT 39 books: Pentateuch (5), Historical (12), Poetic (5), Prophetic (17)
• 3 parts: Torah (“Law”), Pentateuch (“5 books of Moses”), Nevi’im
• (“Prophets”) and Ketuvim (“Writings” or Hagiographa)
Library of Books
• originally written by Jewish people in Hebrew, later on Aramaic language of Palestine
• promises or contract made by God
Library of Books
• NT what had happened to Jesus and to the people who believed in Him.
• about New promises, New contract that God had made, not only for Jews but for everyone who believed
• NT books: Historical (5), Pauline Epistles (13) & Non-Pauline Epistles (9)
Library of Books
• Difference to the OT: this agreement did not depend on keeping the law but it depended on a person being so sorry for the bad things they had done (“repenting”)
• It depended on them asking Jesus to forgive them and be their special friend and leader.
Library of Books
• Contains various literary genres
• Written across history, at different times and places
• Written by diverse authors
Library of Books
Naming the Bible
Naming the Bible• Papyrus and parchments – ancient
writing materials
• Finished writings were bound on two rods and this roll was called biblion.
• Biblion - denotes any kind of written document originally those written in papyrus; diminutive of biblios.
Naming the Bible•Bible – a collection of many individual books, different in size, style, and content•Ta biblia – The Books•During the New Testament period the Bible is referred to as hai graphai (the Scriptures) by Matthew and ta grammata ( the sacred writings) by Paul.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. - I Timothy 3: 16
References• http://www.believers.org/believe/bel191.htm
• http://www.tecmalta.org/tft102.htm
• http://www.beyondthisplanet.org/bible/bible_a_library%20_part_1.htm
• http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=books+of+the+new+testament&btnG=Maghanap&meta=
• http://bible.cc/2_timothy/3-16.htm
• Kaloob
• Optional:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNj4nET8lE