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Bible Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the story of the canon | rule or standard |
| the creeds are built on the foundation of the | canon |
| canon | Authoritative measure used for comparison and determining divergence |
| The development of the Christian canon involves several interactive elements: | -Hebrew scriptures -Testimony of Jesus’ career (Gospels) -Apostolic teaching -“rule of faith” -The creeds then extrapolate the most important elements of each into a list of beliefs. |
| "rule of faith" | the condensed narrative of God’s work used to test the authority of individual religious texts |
| 4 condensed Marks of Authority | -Apostolicity -Orthodoxy -Antiquity -Catholicity |
| Apostolicity | Was it written by an apostle? |
| Orthodoxy | Did it conform to the rule of faith? |
| Antiquity | Could it be dated to the apostolic age? |
| Catholicity | Was it generally accepted in the worship and instruction of the majority of churches? |
| the Apocrypha | group of writings that were included in the Septuagint (= The translation of the Hebrew Scripture into Greek) and are still included in the canon of certain Christian groups.Notable text and 1-2 Maccabees, Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon |
| Pseudopigrapha | a group of writings. These Jewish writings were claimed to be written by various prophets and famous OT writers but can be dated to roughly 200 years before Jesus. |
| Targums | The Jews also used paraphrases of the Hebrew text called called what that functioned as commentary and free translations of the text (think the message bible). |
| Catholics accepted what | the apocryphal writings |
| protestants reject what | reject everything outside of the 66 books b/c they fail the 4 marks of authority listed on the previous slide. |
| why do our churches need creeds | -Brevity with density! -Creeds remind us that we are a part of a lager story of God’s work in the world -They unite us with Christians form every generation - despite secondary differences. |
| use the creeds for? | -Public worship: professing belief out loud with Christians -Promoting unity with other Christians - reminder of our individual identity as members of God’s family -demand personal devotion. You cannot say the creed without “I believe.” |
| So what is the deal with authority? | -debate over the role of authority and tradition -This debate largely is divided among 4 groups: Catholics, Pentecostals, Theologically Liberal churches and conservative Protestants. -EXPLODES (What are the different sources of truth?) |
| John Wesley’s Quadrilateral | -Tradition -Scripture -Reason -Experience |
| tradition | religious information that has been handed down to us from various sources. |
| reason | information that comes through the human minds capacity for logical, rational and analytic thought. |
| experience | information that comes through direct encounter, participation, or observation |
| emotions | Information that comes through subjectively experienced psychological feelings |
| General revelation | Revelation about God given through the created order (Ps. 19:1-6: Rom. 1:18-20; 2:14-15). |
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