Chapter 3 Flashcards
Anarchy
A society that exist without a government on control
Authority
The power to command and the expertise to influence others
Canan
The Greek word for standard; the collection of Biblical writing commonly excepted as genuine and authoritative
3 ways to claim the bibles authority for itself
Jesus asserted authority
Jesus trusted the Bible’s authority
Jesus confirmed authority on His disciples
Essence
Defining attributes that give entity its fundamental identity
Internal evidence
Your own evidence
External evidence
Outside yourself
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
You may not have been there but it happened
Objectives to the authority of the Bible
The Bible was written by human beings
The Bible has been corrupted
Important books have been left out of the Bible
Textual variables
Difference between particular words, phrases, or passages within multiple copies of the same ancient manuscript
Meaningful viable variants
Lost gospels
Are a collection of 52 text discovered in 1945 in Egypt
3 criteria use by early scholars to decide what books are scriptures
Apostolicity, orthodoxy, pedigree
Apostolicity
Was a book written by an apostle or an associated by an apostle
Orthodoxy
Did the book conform to the teachings and theology of other books known by the apostles
Pedigree
Was the book accepted early on in the life of the church
