God's Revelation Through His Words in Scripture

• Latin Vulgate - translation of the Roman Bible to latin
• Heresy - A belief that is contrary to the teachings of the Church.
• The Bible - a collection of books or a library rather than a single literary composition
• The Bible was written in three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek
• Stages in the Development of the Bible

  • Saving Events/Experiences
  • Oral Tradition
  • Written Tradition
  • Edited Tradition
  • Canonical Tradition
• Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible or Pentateud
• Saving Events/Experiences

  - stories of God saving the people

  - happened within the community

  - events which God revealed Himself to his people and invited them to enter into a covenant with Him
• Oral Tradition

  - the memory and meaning of the saving events were transmitted from one generation to another through story-telling, poems, songs, and rituals
• Written Tradition

  - parts of the oral tradition were written down in variety of ways

  - continued side by side with oral tradition
• Psalm - a book in the Bible wrote by David
• Parable of Sower - The seed represents the Word of God, the sower represents the preacher, the soil represents the heart of the listener, and the birds represent the devil.
• Edited Tradition

  - gathering together pieces of the oral and written tradition and formulating them in such a way that they spoke to the lives of the people
• Canonical Tradition

  - The process by which some sacred writings became a book of the Bible, while some did not.
• Old Testament

  - tells us about God’s relationship with Israel before the time of Christ
• The old testament contains 46 books written from the tenth century BC to the second century BC.
• New Testament

  - describes the new relationship that God has began with all people through Jesus when he lived on earth

  - also describes the establishment of the Church
• The New Testament contains 27 books written between 40 AD and 110 AD.
• Jesus - ultimate expression/fulfillment of God's love
• Books of Revelation - wrote by John the Beloved
• Anno Domini - "A.D."; year of the Lord
• 32 AD - 33 AD - death of Christ
• 40 AD - started the making of Bible
• Saul - apostle of the Gentiles
• 4 Writers of the Gospel

  • Mark - disciple of Peter
  • Matthew - disciple of Peter
  • Luke - disciple of Paul
  • John - only apostle among the four; witnessed Jesus
• Matthias and Barnabas - chosen people to replace Judas, in the end, Matthias was to replace Judas' place among the twelve apostles
• Catholic Bible has 46 books in Old Testament and 27 in New Testament, total of 73 books. While, in the non-Catholic Bible, the OT has 39 books and 27 books in NT, total of 66 books.
• Deuterocanonical Books - Means “second canon” because there was a certain reluctance by the church to admit these books into the canon of the Scripture.
• "ta biblia" - Greek word of the Bible
• the books - the meaning of ta biblia
• "biblia" - the Bible was later translated to Latin means "book"
• Canon - The official and authoritative list of divinely inspired writings
• Books of the Bible: Pentateuch, Historical Books, Wisdom Books, Prophetic Books, Gospel + Acts, Epistles
• Pauline letters - wrote by Paul