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What is the Bible?
Chapter 1 Review
Question | Answer |
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Name the two original sources for Catholic teaching. | Scripture and Oral Tradition |
What is the Bible? | The inspired and inerrant Word of God |
What is the living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the Church? | Tradition |
What does inerrant mean? | Incapable of making an error |
What is the word used to indicate that Scripture writers were enlightened directly by the action of the Holy Spirit to write what God wanted and nothing more? | Inspiration |
What is the divinely chosen interpreter of Scripture? | The Catholic Church. |
What does infallibility mean? | When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine for belief as divinely revealed and as the teaching of Christ, the Church is incapable of error |
What is the purpose of the Magisterium? | To keep the Church free from error |
Who exercises the supreme Magisterium? | The pope and bishops in union with him |
What does the phrase "in a particular way" mean in reference to the teaching authority of the pope? | The pope has supreme authority in a question regarding faith or morals |
Who is the author of the Bible? | God |
Explain the meaning of number 107 of the CCC. | The books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach the truth which God wished to see in Sacred Scripture. |
How did the authors of the Bible differ from many people today in their view of religion? | Religion held everything together. |
Why do we say the Bible is objective history? | God writes without bias because he sees everything exactly the way it is. |
What is the story of God's plan to save us worked out over several thousand years? | Salvation History |
How does salvation history differ from all other history? | it deals with both the past and future |
What is a covenant? | a sacred bond of kinship |
How many covenants has God made with his people? | 7 |
What does the word "canon" mean? | a rule or measure |
What are the three sources to determine canonicity? | orthodoxy, apostolicity, Catholicity |
What are the 5 rules for determining correct Scriptural interpretation? | the nature of the doctument, the character and station of the author, his ways of expression, the context in which he wrote, and the setting in which it is read. |
What are the books which the Church accepted as canonical which some Jewish scholars did not? | deuterocanonical books |
In what covenant period are we living? | The sixth covenant |