Bib Faith Exam 1 Flashcards

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ECOWS

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Event
Confession
Oral Tradition
Written Tradition
Scripture
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the account of go’d self-disclosure to humanity through His words and actions

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revelation

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the flesh and blood form of a human being in the person of Jesus

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Incarnation

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Plays an active part in the receiving and recording of revelation by ancient biblical writers

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Inspiration

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The view of inspiration as God’s dictation of His speech to the writers of the Bible

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Dictation theory of inspiration

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The view of the active involvement of the Holy Spirit in the writing of the Scriptures

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Dynamical Theory of Inspiration

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A collection of writings accepted by a religious body as authoritative and normative for faith and practice

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Canon; originally a reed/”measuring stick”

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The study of how to read and interpret the Bible

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Hermeneutics

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The study of a text to determine its meaning either in its historical context or in its literary context

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Exegesis

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3 perspectives to study the Bible

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World Behind the Text: History
World Within the Text: Literary Character
World in Front of the Text: what readers take away and apply from the text

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Literary genres found in the Bible

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Narrative, Poetry, Laws, Prophetic Speeches, Wisdom Sayings, Apocalyptic Lit, Parables, Letter

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First 11 chapters of Genesis; set the stage for God’s encounter with Abraham

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primeval traditions/narratives

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12-50 of Gensis; Deal with stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Israel’s faith and history

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patriarchal traditions

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What are the “two creation accounts” in Genesis?

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The creation of the world and the creation of the nation Israel

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How did Israelite’s view the structure of the universe as seen in Genesis? Why is how they view creation important?

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Circular, flat; has a dome shaped sky. Water above the sky is rain.
It is “prescientific” and cautions against literal interpretation of creation traditions

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16
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Hebrew for man

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‘adam

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Hebrew for ground

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adamah

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Hebrew for “to cease”

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Shabat

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19
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Greek for “fullness of time”

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Kairos

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First attempt to translate the Bible

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Targums (“translation”); Jewish scribes put oral paraphrases into writing before the time of Christ

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Translation of the Bible from Hebrew to Greek; first “event” in the history of Bible translation

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Septuagint (LXX); done in Alexandria Egypt for Greek-speaking Jews (BC)

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Translation of Bible to Latin; second “event” in Bible translation history; fourth century AD

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Vulgate (by Jerome)

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First systematic attempt to translate Bible to English; wanted the Bible to be available for common people

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John Wycliffe, NT appeared in 1380, he and friends completed whole Bible 2 years later

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First scholar to translate portion of Bible from original languages; first printed edition of English Bible

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William Tyndale; NT in 1526

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25
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History of King James Version

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King James 1 commissioned a translation of the whole Bible in 1604. 54 scholars worked in 6 groups, started 1607 finished 1611

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Preserves as much as possible the original word order and sentence structure; examples

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Word Literal; New Revised Standard Version and KJV and NASB

Facts: Accurate and faithful to original and does by committees to help against bias; have awkward constructions and may outlive intended useful life

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Thought-for-thought translation; requires use of modern idiot and thought forms to convey the message authentically and accurately to modern readers; ex.

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Dynamic Equivalent; NIV

Facts: becomes dated more rapidly than word-literal; more readable, user-friendly than word-literal

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Translation that expresses the ideas found in the book with the most contemporary language possible; ex.

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Free Paraphrase; the Message, the Living Bible

Facts: least faithful and becomes most quickly outdated; easiest to read for non-churched people; usually done by one person and has much bias

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29
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T/F The Bible is written to give us an answer for everything

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F; it is not written to give us an answer for everything, it is written to teach salvation in Christ without error

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30
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How is the Bible “inerrant?”

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It is inerrant regarding the will of God, morals, and salvation. It is not necessarily inerrant regarding science/history in it and that is OK because nothing regarding salvation is changed by the history or science in the Bible being correct/incorrect

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31
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Karl Barth’s 3-fold Form of the Word of God

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  1. Word of God Incarnate-Jesus Christ
  2. Word of God Written-Scripture
  3. Word of God Proclaimed-Preaching/Witness
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32
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7 Affirmations regarding Biblical Authority*

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  1. The conjunction of Intrinsically Persuasive Content and Reader Consent/Assent (authority comes from person being respectable/trustworthy)
  2. Enduring formative and normative power in Church and culture
  3. Dual quality of stability and adaptability
  4. Descriptive Realism
  5. Contextual Applicability
  6. Positive Effect of diversity and conflict
  7. Permits interpretation, discernment, and judgment
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33
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“fides”

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Truth/faith

34
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“God Breathed”

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Ruach

Also: spirit, wind, breath

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T/F The Bible has become authority because true authority comes from a person/object being respectable/trustworthy

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True; also through Ruach

The Spirit of God was present and working at every step in ECOWS (many acts of the Spirit throughout the whole process)

36
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3 theories of inspiration

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  1. Mechanical Dictation
  2. General Humanistic
  3. Dynamic Interpersonal**what we believe
37
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Theory of Inspiration that said God actually told and dictated what to write

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Mechanical Dictation; not correct because that is not how God relates to us (taking us and forcing us to write/act)

38
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Theory of Inspiration that reduces works to inspiration of stuff like Shakespeare

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General Humanistic

39
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Theory of Inspiration that says the Bible is complex and living, God communicated with Abraham but didn’t necessarily “speak” to him, “inspired” him

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Dynamic-Interpersonal

40
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The long, complex, and dynamic process through which God’s revelatory actions were acknowledged, orally transmitted, written down, edited, collected, and recognized by the community of faith

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Canonical Process

41
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T/F The Bible is fully human and fully divine

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T

42
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When did canonization of the OT take place? The NT?

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OT: 90 AD
NT: 378 AD

(approx.)

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When was the oral tradition of the Bible finally written down (not a specific date)

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David/Solomon era when they are finally settled and had an educated class/language

44
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T/F Some written traditions were still rejected at the Scripture stage because they were seen as unreliable

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True; ex. Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary Mag.

45
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T/F All scripture has equal authority

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False; ex. Levitical laws, BUT we interpret all scripture through the lens of Jesus

46
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Canonization of OT

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Torah authoritative by 400 BC –> Former and Latter Prophets by 200 BC –> Writings (Kethubim) by 100 AD –> Council of Jamnia in 95 AD officially endorsed all 39 OT books

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Canonization of NT

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Pauline letters in 2nd century AD –> 4 Gospels by 150 AD –> Moratoria Fragment 180-200 AD (against Marcion) –> Origen’s translation –> Athanasius of Alexandria –> Athanasius’ 27 books accepted by Synod of Hippo in AD 393 and by Synod of Carthage in 397

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Marcion

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Rejected the OT; produced canonical list of NT books which consisted of Luke and 10 Pauline letters

49
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T/F Luther and Calvin believed that the authority of scripture is not in words of the Bible themselves, but rather in the Scriptures, believers, and Christ

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T

50
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7 Definitions of Biblical Inspiration

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  1. Dictated by God
  2. Inerrancy not necessary
  3. Scripture not inerrant in science/history but is in faith and morals
  4. Ideas, not words, of Bible are inspired
  5. Experiences of writers inspired
  6. Bibel may contain Word, but the Word of God is living (church)
  7. Faith community creates sacred text and is inspired
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3 languages of original Bible

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Hebrew-OT,
Aramaic-Daniel, Ezra, Jesus’ speech
(Koine) Greek-NT

52
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Exegesis v. Eisegesis

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Ex: what was the author trying to communicate (reading out)
Eis: reading meanings into the text-no no (reading in)

53
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Definition of “myth”

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Not false, but rather a traditional narrative that gives expression to a culture’s fundamental beliefs

54
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When was Genesis 1 written

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The Babylonian exile (587 BC); written by people who wanted to explain their beliefs in a time of religions crisis

55
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“formless and void”

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tohu va vohu

56
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creatio ex niihilo

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creation out of nothing

57
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Significance of days 1-3 being parallel to days 4-6

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Days 1-3 of light, heavens, and plants/vegation are God created the form of the Earth. Days 4-6 of stars, sun, moon, birds and fish, and animals/man are God filling that form

58
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“Bara”

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Create
Only used in Gen. 1 and in Rev. when talking about the new heavens and earth because only God can simply speak things into being

59
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“Tzelem”

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image (ex. image of God)

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Significance of water in the creation account

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Water is potential for life and destruction; God hovers over it, He is over all

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“TOV”

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“good,” fitting/in accord with the Creator’s will

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Differences in Genesis 1 and 2

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1 is more universal, cosmic, and overarching while 2 is a narrative and specific

Also, the order is different. The authors saw what was more important and put it in there, the order was irrelevant (ex. it doesn’t matter what day(s) man was created on, what matters is that man was the pinnacle of God’s creation)

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T/F the 6 “days” of creation are meant to be taken literally

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False; there was no such thing as a day, it’s metaphorical

64
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Bara v. Yatzar

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Both mean created; bara (out of nothing) is used in Gen. 1 and Yatzar (form out of something) is used in Gen. 2

65
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Yatzar

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“to form/fashion”

66
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Ish/Isha

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Male/Female

Equally made in God’s image and need each other

67
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Where is the first “not TOV” seen?

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Gen. 2 when man is alone

68
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What is significant about the serpent’s deception in Gen. 3?

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The Writers wrote it appealing to the fact that some people do not believe God is giving them freedom (appealing to pride); Eve doubts and sins because of her pride and she wants to be completely independent

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T/F We are dependently independent

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T; Adam and Eve want absolute independence because of their discontentment and pride but we are made to be dependently independent

70
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Finite Freedom v. Absolute Freedom

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What God called good is finite freedom but discontentment with our creaturely condition and finite freedom leads to a desire for absolute freedom

71
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Consequences of sin

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Blame, belief that God is malevolent, no rightt relations, not TOV, disorder, death

Pain in childbearing (woman’s ID found in this in ancient times)
Husband rules over (he can deny woman’s ID)
Ground is cursed (man’s ID found in his work)

72
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T/F the serpent in Gen. 3 is satan

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False; the serpent in Genesis 3 is a symbol

73
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**Basic affirmations from Creation

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  1. The universe is ordered and ruled by God
  2. The universe is dependent on God
  3. Humanity has stewardly dominion over creation
  4. Humans are related to and dependent on Earth
  5. Humanity has a special relationship with God
  6. Humans have intimate relationships with each other

*This is true regardless of how literally you interpret the creation account

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Describing something as human that isn’t really human

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Anthropomorphism (ex. how the Lord was depicted “walking” in the garden)

75
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Significance of Cain and Abel

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Shows the animosity in socioeconomic groups (nomads vs. settled people); Cain does not accept or master sin and God sends him off from his clan which was very scary in this time period

76
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T/F the flood is a reverse of Genesis 1

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True; water covers everything and chaos reemerges

77
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“Babel”

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tongue; reminds people of their finitude

78
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Guidelines for Interpretation (6)

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History,
Literature,
Canon, (know the context)
Theology, (Ecumenical creeds, articles of faith)
Community,
Salvation (via saluti, transforming love, new creation)

79
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T/F A text cannot mean what it never meant

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T

80
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3 steps of Biblical interpretation

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Translation, Exegesis, Hermeneutics

81
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What is plenary inspiration

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full/complete (context: Naz. church believes in the plenary insp. of the Holy Scriptures)

82
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Guidelines for modern historical methods of interpretation and Recent approaches

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  1. Close reading of the text
  2. Knowledge of the lit of a text
  3. Awareness of historical context of writing
  4. Literary Criticism
  5. Reader-Response Crit.
  6. Study of social setting and culture of document
  7. Readings for liberation