Religion

In ____ books it gives us the history of god's plan for our salvation

73

The first section was written ____ The time of Christ, and the second was written ____ The time of Christ

Before, after

Many other books were written during the time the Bible was written, so, how did the church decide which books _______ In the Bible and which ones did not?

Belonged

We moderns pretend to write adjective history, history that tells just the facts. This is silly, all our history is

Biased

Inspired is from a word meaning

Breathed in ( God breathed)

As we will soon learn, the Old Testament does not _____ The New Testament

Cancel

With the help of the Holy Spirit, the church came up with a list, or

Cannon

Whenever you have doubt about what a scripture passage means, you can often find the answer in the

Catechism

One of the best places to find the teaching of the church is in the

Catechism of the Catholic Church

In the old testament, the church except some books as canonical that Jewish addition does not regard as scripture. These books are called

Deuterocanonical

All the _____ of the church explained in the catechism , with references to the scripture passages they come from

Doctrines

These books show that certain Catholic ______ are true

Doctrines

Every part of the Bible fits perfectly into the larger picture of god's plan for our

Salvation

The writers' _____ where in lighted directly by the action of the Holy Spirit to write what God wanted

Intellects

Because a teaching tradition of the church goes back to the time in the Bible was written, we know what the books of the Bible are really __________ to tell us

Intended

Later, in the first chapter of the book of_______, The sacred author makes use of this verse from the book of Genesis

Jeremiah

The six covenant is the new covenant with all humanity through

Jesus Christ

The song was actually written by ______ ______ , Who described is own feelings in one of his many times of trouble

King David

A covenant establishes bonds a sacred __________; it unites the participants in a family relation

Kinship

God's covenant, however, unites persons in a union that is meant to _____

Last

There, the author (Moses) says that the earth was " without form and void," and so the first thing that God created was the_______

Light

The Bible as a whole, tells us the history of that plan of _______

Salvation

The rest of the Bible tells about how God gave human beings the means to

Salvation

That is what we mean by the term

Salvation history

The church had the old scriptures, the question became, " which of the ___ books should be included in worship and in the___?" That is the question that the church had to answer

New, Bible

The second covenant is with (after a flood)

Noah

Because God sees history _______, The Bible often and Ignores the emperors and concentrates on the people who were really important, the ones the world tends not to notice

Objectively

God is the ultimate author of the Bible, and he knew the plan of salvation from the beginning. The Holy Spirit intended even the oldest parts of the ______ ________ to be read in the light of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Old testament

The Bible is divided into two sections, the ___ Testaments, and the ___ Testament

Old, new

Although the Bible is made up of many books, together those books tell ____ story

One

Sacred scripture and sacred tradition form ___ source from which the word of God comes to us, as the New Testament itself tells us

One

For the Catholic, the word of God alone is supreme. But the Scriptures are not the _____ source of gods word, as the Bible says

Only

Sacred scripture (The Bible) Is not the ______ Authority for our faith, as scripture itself teaches. (Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to traditions that you were taught, either by an oral Statement or buy a letter of ours. 2 Thess 2:15)

Only

Often people interpret the same verse of Scripture and exactly ________ Ways

Opposite

Many of the most important characters in the Bible history are ________ people. Jesus Christ himself, the son of God, looks like an ordinary Carpenter son to people around him

Ordinary

Do the typical riders, the important thing about history is what it tells about God's relationship with his

People

People today usually think of religion in terms of

Personal experience

In the Bible, the riders used many different literary techniques. The reason they did is that they all had different______ and lived at different _______.

Personalities, times

God has always had a _____ to save us

Plan

Every history must be written from some ___ __ ____ , Even our choice of which facts are important shows bias

Point of view

Understand the Bible correctly requires some_______

Preparation

Your _____ Is also a good person to talk to

Priest

Most ______ (in high school Bible teachers) Will be delighted to see you sincerely trying to understand the Bible, and will give you as much help as they can

Priests

God is the ______ Author of scripture, the human authors were also true authors because they acted as free, subordinate, intelligent ________ Of the Holy Spirit

Principal, instruments

The tradition includes the scripture, which are a ______ expression of the tradition

Privileged

Jesus Christ quoted the first line of ________ __ as he died on the cross

Psalm 22

yea, dogs are around about me; A company of evil doers encircle me ; they have pierced my hands and feet- I can count all my bones-they stare in gloat over me; they divided my garments among them, and for my rainment they cast lots

Psalm 22: 16-18

Protestant communities usually follow later Jewish traditions, and _____Those books

Rejected

To the Ancients,__________ was what held everything together, and caused it all to make sense. Because they understood it this way, the Bible writers did not write history. The same way we do we see history as a list of events, dates, and main characters only, especially ________ ______ likings, presidents, and generals.

Religions, important people

In fact, all the history in the Bible is really salvation history the history of god's plan to ____ us unfolded through the ages

Save

We can't understand the whole meaning of_____ without understanding the literary techniques

Scripture

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ is transmitted through ______ and _______ as one source

Scripture, tradition

Through the things that are___, We can understand the things we_____ see

See, cannot

We can see _______ covenant between God and us in salvation history

Seven

From the beginning of time, God had a plan to save us all from our______

Sin

God created us perfect but our first parents ______ and Brought ______ upon themselves and their descendants(us)

Sinned, death

Besides it's literal meaning, the church also teaches us to interpret seeker scripture in_______ sense

Spiritual

The ____ sense is the meaning of the Bible when read under the influence of the _____ _____ in the light of the mystery of Christ

Spiritual, Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit moved them to write without impairing their freedom to write in their own ______ and through their own _______ and _____

Style, personality, experiences

Infallible means that, because of the divine help of Christ himself, the church cannot ____ in matters of faith

Teach error

A contract is merely a _______ Business agreement, meant to last as long as current circumstances make it necessary

Temporary

The tradition of the church tells us that there are_____ spiritual senses to look for in Scripture

Three

Because God's word has been revealed to us, we know how to plan of salvation will keep working until the end of_____

Time

Deuterocanonical Books

Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, parts of Daniel and Esther

The teaching of the church opens up all the ____Of the Bible to us

Treasures

Properly understood, scripture always teaches

Truth

The allegorical sample, I will read the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac, we say that Isaac is a _____ I was Christ, because the sacrifice of Isaac says God at work in a way that would reach it's ultimate fulfillment in the sacrifice of Christ

Type

However, there is one point of you that's completely________ God sees everything the way it really is, and the writers of the Bible tell history from _____ Point of view

Unbiased, God's

There, he describes the destruction brought on by God's judgment against Judah by the writing this: I looked on the earth and I lo, it was waste and______. And to the heavens, and they had no______

Void, light

When we learn to see salvation history this way, it will be easy to make sense of the Bible as a

Whole

In both cases, The________ comes directly to us

Word of God

In 2 Thessalonians 2:15, Saint Paul reminds the Thessalonian believers that they must hold fast to traditions that the apostles have passed down either in writing or by______ ( So then, brethen, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word-of-mouth or by letter)

Word of mouth

The liturgy if the service of the church is

Worship

2 timothy 3: 16

all scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness

The Bible is the _____ and _____ word of God

inspired and inerrant

Sacred scripture (The Bible) is _____ and _____

Inspired, inerrant

The third covenant is with (through Abraham)

Abrahams tribe

The first covenant is with ______ (w/ whole human race)

Adam

In the Old Testament, covenant was in ________ between God and mankind me through individual persons

Agreement

The fourth covenant is with (through Moses)

All of Israel

The fifth covenant is with (through David and Solomon)

All the nations

The first spiritual sense is the________ sense shows us how people and events in salvation history point forward two other times

Allegorical

The third spiritual sense is the_________ sense shows us how the events we see in the Bible point upward to what heaven is like

Anagogical

We also need to remember that the Bible is ______ literature, and the writers did not write like we write today.

Ancient

____ ______ didn't see religion as a personal experience at all The word religion comes from my Latin word meaning_____

Ancient people, binding

The chain through what authority is given to teach the Scripture is called

Apostolic succession

Jesus like his apostles his ______ to teach : The___, The apostles of today, still carry out the teaching tradition

Authority, bishops

Yeah, it describes so well the sufferings of Christ on the cross and no _________ can read it without thinking of the son of David, the Messiah

Christian

As Catholics, we are so blessed to have the ____Guide us

Church

Because of that gift, the Holy Spirit continues to dwell in and guide the

Church

Together with the teachings of the ______, the Bible tells us what we need to know in order to be saved

Church

Because we have the living truth of the church, we can read scripture with more ______, ________ and more _____

Confidence, understanding, freedom

A covenant is similar to a ________, But it is so much more than that.

Contract

A business agreement is a ______, A marriage is a _____

Contract, covenant

How can good people know what interpretation is

Correct

One good way of looking at salvation history is to see it as a series of _________ between God and us

Covenants

We can look at all salvation history as a series of seven__________ between God and his people

Covenants

Jeremiah uses the same words that were used in the book of Genesis describe the _______ of the world

Creation

What Jeremiah was trying to communicate is that the sins of Judah were so bad, that God's judgment was terrible that it seem to undo the work of______!

Creation

For example, two Maccabees shows that Jewish believers were praying for the souls of the ____ many years before the coming of Jesus

Dead

A medieval couplet summarizes the significance of the four senses of scripture: The letter speaks of the_____, allegory to _______,The moral how to ___,Anagogy our _______.

Deeds, Faith, act, destiny

Finally, at the end of time, there will be a seventh covenant for all

Eternity

Scripture is, in a way, like receiving the

Eucharist

Those differences make reading the scripture Endlessly ________ and ______!

Exciting, fascinating

Salvation history is the story of how we sinful humans have been brought into God's covenant ______

Family

That means it uses literary_______and _______ to express its meaning

Forms, techniques

But salvation history is different than other kinds of history it deals not only with the pass but also the

Future

All we have to do to understand how scaredauthors use literary technique is turn to the very beginning of the book of______

Genesis

The Bible is sacred lecture because______ is there author

God

This means that ____ himself guided the writers of scripture

God

However, those ordinary people carried _____ ______ , And that made them more important than all the Mighty emperors who are filled man's history books

Gods message

The books of Tobit shows the existence and actions of

Guardian angels

Many things in the Bible are _____To understand.

Hard

Also, what did it mean to say that a book was part of scripture?

Has to do with the celebration of the liturgy

Salvation history is the story of how that plan works out in _______

History

At Pentecost, after the death and resurrection of Jesus, God poured out the______ ______ upon the apostles

Holy spirit

The _______ ______ often puts more meaning into a passage then the Secret authors knew they were writing

Holy spirit

Both parts Are equally

Important

Means that the Bible has no error

Inerrant

Because the Holy Spirit guide the church, in Christ gave apostles and their successors his teaching authority, the churches teaching on matters of faith and morals is _______

Infallible

The _____ Sense is what the authors intended to express, and scholarship helps to shed light on this sense

Literal

When we look at the spiritual senses of a passage in scripture, we must be careful not to forget the ____ sense, since " all other senses of sacred scripture are based on the literal," as St. Thomas ________ pointed out

Literal, Aquinas

To understand the meaning of inspired scripture, we must distinguish two senses, the ___And the ____

Literal, spiritual

The first thing to remember about scripture is that it is________

Literature

There are many different kinds of_______(stories, poems, dialogue, figurative language, and others)

Literature

The church was founded by Jesus Christ to keep the ________ _________ of faith alive

Living tradition

The true interpretation of those sacred scripture and sacred tradition is expressed in the infallible teaching of the church, the

Magisterium

The word of God in written or oral form is in interpreted authentically by the _______ of the church

Magisterium

If we read only the verse from Jeremiah come out we get some meeting. However, if we read it with knowledge of the verse from Genesis, we understand it's true_________

Meaning

The Sacred authors used literary techniques to express their

Meaning

The word cannon comes from a Greek word meaning " ________ " or ____

Measuring rod, rule

The teaching authority of the church helps us from making serious _____ in the interpretation of the Bible

Mistakes

The second spiritual sense is the_______ since shows us how we can use the things the heroes of the scripture did as a pattern for our own lives. By seeing their good actions, we learn to turn toward ______ and away from______

Moral, good, evil

Saint Thomas Aquinas is called the what

The angelic doctor

On the contrary, the New Testament writers constantly refer to the Old Testament as

The scripture