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
Gnosticism
A second century heretical Christian movement
Derived authority
Authority that has been ordained or permitted by God
God has authority over the limits of reason
If God exists then what are definition of what is reasonable, just expand
God has authority over our understanding of reality
A biblical worldview commits us to view of reality larger then our capacity to our understanding
God has authority over culture
The truth of scriptures is the true far all cultures at all times
God has authority over entertainment
God claims authority over what voices we pay attention to
God has authority over our senses
The Bible claims to be an reality check when our senses fail us
God has authority over our emotions
Truth is not determine by our feelings but by God
God has authority over knowledge
God has the most reliable means of knowing
God has authority over our governments
Kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations
