section quiz for chris hanna

What are the ways that the Bible pictures Jesus' authority?

- Acting for God the Father.- Forgives sin (see Mark 2:5-8)- Casts out demons (see Mark 1:27)- Teaches with authority (see Matthew 5:21-48; 7:28-29)- Raises the dead (see Luke 7:11-17; John 11:38-44)

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

- Discovered between 1947 and 1956- Dated in between 250 B.C. and A.D. 68- Located in an area known as Qumran

What is the Septuagint?

- Greek translation of the Old Testament- Jews of Alexandria, Egypt- 250 B.C.- Tradition maintains that the text was translated by 72 scholars

What is the Vulgate?

- Translated near the close of the fourth century A.D.- Translation became the common version of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

What is the Masoretic text?

- prepared by a group of Jewish scholars around A.D. 700- preserve the oral pronunciation of the Hebrew words

What are the evidences of God's authority?

-His sovereign, universal, and eternal reign over the entire universe.- Job 26:12- Isaiah 50:2- Exodus 15:18

Who are the apostolic fathers?

A group of early Christian writers believed to have had direct contact at one time with the apostles of the church.

What is allegorical interpretation?

A kind of biblical interpretation assuming that the text to be interpreted intends to say something other than what its literal wording suggests.

What is tropological interpretation?

biblical interpretation attempts to discover moral sense behind the literal meaning of a scripture passage

What is typological interpretation?

An approach to biblical interpretation in which persons, events, or things of the Old Testament are interpreted as foreshadowings of persons, events, or things in the New Testament.

___________ inerrancy affirms the Bible is accurate and true in all matters and that the writers intend to give a considerable amount of exact data in such matters.

Absolute

___________ inerrancy affirms that the Bible is completely true in all that the Bible affirms, to the degree of precision intended by the writer.

Balanced

The first church council to list all 27 books of the New Testament was the council of ___________ in A.D. 397.

Carthage

_________ view of truth is a theory holding that truth consists in coherence with other statements to be true.

Coherence

__________ view of truth is a theory maintaining that truth consists in some form of correspondence between one's belief and actual conditions in the world.

Correspondence

What is anagogical interpretation?

biblical interpretation seeks to unfold the spiritual meaning of a scripture passage cause it relates to eternal or future realities

How does Dockery define authority?

Dockery defines by explaining and saying the right or power to command belief or obedience

_________ is that which is concerned with the possibility, nature, and conditions of human knowledge.

Epistemological

___________ but authoritative is a view build on an encounter view of inspiration. It sees the Bible not as revelation but as a pointer to a personal encounter with God. Questions of truth or falseness are of little concern. It reaches the faulty conclusion that the Bible contains errors because it is written by human beings who are sinful and therefore err.

Errant

Hermeneutics is from the Latin word hermeneuin, meaning to explain, to express, to translate, or to interpret.

False

It is testimony to the providence of God that so much Old Testament material survived the Persian exile.

False

___________ inerrancy contends that the Bible inerrantly accomplishes its purposes.

Functional

Where does the Bible derive its authority from?

God

What happens if we allow the Scriptures to be interpreted by our experience?

If we allow scriptures to be interpreted by our experience our experience will become the higher authority

________ is the view that the Bible is incapable of error and cannot deceive or mislead.

Infallibility

___________ inerrancy assumes that God actually dictates the Bible to writers.

Naive

Why does our approach to the subject of biblical authority begin with God himself?

The approach to the subject of biblical authority begin with God himself, is that it must begin with God himself first , for in God that all authority is located at.

Why is the Bible our final authority in all things that pertain to life and godliness?

The bible and our final authority in all things that pertain to life and godliness because its trustworthy and truthful.

What is the rightful role of the Bible?

The rightful role of the Bible is commanding obedience

Inerrancy cannot be discussed unless we first understand revelation and inspiration.

True

Knowledge of God becomes a possibility for humans at God's initiative by grace through faith.

True

Marcion rejected the Old Testament and issued his own New Testament consisting of an abbreviated Gospel of Luke and 10 Letters of Paul (excluding the Pastorals).

True

What does sensus plenior mean?

a Latin term indicating that God intended a fuller meaning of a passage of Scripture, although it was not clearly understood by the human author or by the original hearers/readers.

What is Christological interpretation?

an approach to biblical interpretation that seeks to see Jesus Christ as central to all interpretation of the O.T.

The first list of canonical books that contains the 27 books currently accepted appears in Bishop _________'s festal letter in A.D. 367.

athanasius

What is the ultimate concern in a discussion of the Bible?

authority

What does exegesis mean?

broadly speaking and to explain the meaning of text in its original context

By the fourth century ___________, the church historian, delineated several categories of books: (1) accepted, (2) disputed, (3) rejected, and (4) heretical.

eusebius

Define "normative meaning":

expression suggesting that the interpreters findings of authority for the contemporary interpreters of scripture and may even be binding on the interpreters.

The church determined or defined the books in the church's canon.

false

The basic problem of how sinful human beings are to approach a _________ God and how these persons are to live in relationship to the life-giving Spirit of God is the same for all ages.

holy

Who is Marcion?

idk this

______________ considered apostolicity the fundamental test of canonicity authenticity.

irenaeus

___________ inerrancy maintains that the Bible is inerrant in matters of salvation and ethics or faith and practice.

limited

How is God's truth revealed to us?

through the Holy Spirit's illumination

A renewed commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture is the first step toward healing the deadly sickness in today's theological trends.

true

Canon (From the Greek kanon) means a standard by which something is measured.

true

Early in the second century the four Gospels and the Pauline Letters were circulated as two collections.

true

Modern scientific thought and the concern of historiography for precision are not proper standards for first-century (and earlier) authors.

true

Most of the Old Testament canon, especially the Law an the Prophets, was established long before Christ.

true

Our understanding of Scripture's truthfulness needs to be consistent wit the divine-human nature of Scripture.

true

The Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that the Qumran covenant community has commentaries on most Old Testament books.

true

The New Testament documents were all written in Greek in the first century.

true

The Scriptures are the result of divine inspiration.

true

The issue of biblical inerrancy is best understood as a claim to the Bible's truthfulness.

true

The oracles of some of the prophets were committed to writing and entrusted for safekeeping until the prophecies should be fulfilled and the prophets vindicated (see Isaiah 8:16; Jeremiah 36).

true

Thus, we refer to Scripture as canonical, meaning that it serves as rule, a measure, or standard for Gods people.

true