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