Random test bc mr cadd was absent Flashcards
How is the bible different from any other books?
It is the inspired word of god.
it contains the mind and thinking and basic things that god wants us to know
Are the holy scripture and holy bible the same thing
Yes. Scripture means writing and bible means book. They are a collection of written books.
When was the old testament written.
It was written in C 1000 to 150 BC
Where did the holy scripture come from
It was composed under divine inspiration by several ancient hebrew writers. It is ofter reffered to as the hebrew bible by jews
WHat is the biblical canon
It is the official list of books that the church has discerned to be divinly inspired.
How many books are there in the old tesament canon
46 in version used by catholic church and eastern orthodox churches,
39 in the version used in judaism and the protestant church
What seven books are found in the catholic and orthodox bibles that are missing from the jewish and protestant bibles.
Tobit, judith, 1 and 2 maccabees, wisdom, sirack, and baruch.
What are the deuterocanonical books and the apocrypha
The deuterocanocial is a name used by ecumencial biblical scholars and refers to the seven books reffered to above Apocrypha is a name used in protestant studies to the seven books.
What or who is Yhwh
These four letters are known as tetragrammanton and are used by the hebrew people. The name translates as “I AM” which is based on the basic verb “ to be”
What does Adonai mean
My lord
WHat do sacred scriptures and sacred traditon have in common
They are bounded and interact with each other in teaching us the gospel
What are the three simple rules to Catholics
Context- What is known
Tradition- The guidance of the catholic church as the teacher of faith
Analogy of Faith- The truths are unified within themselvs and within the whole context of the faith
The senes of holy scriptre are?
They are sprirtual senses, allegorical sense, and moral sense
Serious biblical scholarship is assisted by
Knowledge of biblical languages (Hebrew Greek Aramaic Latin)
Knowledge of other contemporaneous writing
Archeological discoveries and applicable historical knowlede
The two senses of the holy scripture
Literal and spiritual
