History of Salvation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Inspiration | God working through humans to convey his message in a way that he will keep the free will of the writers |
| Revelation | The gradual process by which God teacher us truth about himself which we would never know on our own (Holy Trinity) |
| Material Error | grammatical, historical, scientific errors |
| Formal Error | The message; There are NO formal errors in the Bible |
| Fundamentalist | A person who understands and interprets word for word (literalist) |
| Contextualist | A person who understands or interprets the Bible not only by reading the words, but also taking into account the type of literature that a particular passage represents as well as the history and culture of inspired writer |
| Exegete | One skilled in interpreting scripture |
| Cannon | Final 73 books of Bible - 46 in OT - 27 in NT |
| Cannonical | Inspired work recognized by the church |
| Apocryphal | meaning false, refers to any written work not recognized to be inspired by God |
| Tradition (capital T) - Sacred Tradition | Refers to the teachings of God, Jesus, and the Apostles passed down either written or orally |
| tradition (lower case t) | traditions of the church |
| Didactic Fiction | Stories intended to teach a lesson (Noah and the flood) |
| 900 BC - 100 AD | Period that written material of the Bible is from |
| Biblia | Means books, Greek word which Bible comes from |
| Scriptures | Inspired books of the Bible containing God's message for our salvation |
| Testament | Comes from Greek word meaning either last will or arrangement |
| Hebrew Scriptures | known as Old Testament - religious history of the Jews that prepares them for the coming of the Messiah |
| Christian Scriptures | New Testament - written after Ascension |
| Covenant | Binding Pact, contract, or agreement 1. initiated by God 2. Between God and a group of people |
| Codex | New form of book (leaves joined together at one edge like modern book) |
| Parchment | Animal skin pressed into fine and firm leaves. |
| 3 original languages of the Bible | Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek |
| Hebrew (semitic language) | named after one of Noah's sons - Shem |
| Greek | language of Greek Empire (educated people spoke Greek in 2nd and 3rd centuries BC) |
| Aramaic | language spoken during Jesus' times. |
| Septuagint | Greek word meaning seventy - 70 scholars around 200 BC translated books of the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek |
| Vulgate | St. Jerome translated the Old and New Testament from Greek to Latin around 300 AD |
| Oral Tradition | Preservation of a message told from one generation to another |
| Written Tradition | Transmission of a message or event from one generation to another by means of a written language (usually years after the events occur) |
| Hebrews | means "Foreigners" - used during and after exile in Egypt |
| Israelites | People from the tribe of Israel/Jacob |
| Jews | Descendants of the tribe of Judah |
| Pentateuch | Greek word for first five books of the Bible (Penta=five;teuch=books)(also called Books of Moses and the Torah) |
| Torah | Means the law |
| Genesis | Means origins or beginnings (stories of man, world, covenant) |
| Exodus | 2nd book (captivity in Egypt, flight from Egypt, Ten Commandments) |
| Leviticus | Laws, regulations, and observances |
| Numbers | 4th book (Exodus journey continues) |
| Deuteronomy | 5th book and end of exodus from Egypt to Promised Land |
| Semitic Cosmogony | Hebrew or Jewish notion or concept of the origins of the world and universe |
| "J" or Yahwist Tradition | Represented God in human traits called Anthropomorphism |
| "P" or Priestly Tradition | Stresses sacredness of God |
| "E" or Eloist Tradition | Visions and dreams;refer to God as Eloim |
| "D" or Deuteronomic Tradition | Much later source |
| First Story of Creation | Priestly Authors: World was a formless wasteland Before creation, there was nothing, God creates everything Six Days of Creation (meaningful and planned - all that was created was good) 1-Light divided from darkness 2-Atmosphere divided from oceans 3-Land divided from oceans, seas, rivers - vegetation made 4-Sun, moon, stars created to fill the sky 5-Water filled with creatures, sky filled with creatures 6-Land filled with creatures;man created 7-God rested from all his work. |
| Humanity | Made in image and likeness of God Given dominance over creation "Be fertile and multiply" |
| Second Story of Creation | Yahwist Tradition Creation of man more descriptive Vital component-The breath of God(spirit) Method for creation still a mystery Everything created around man("Cultivate it and care for it") God gives man one order-Free to eat from any tree except the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the moment you do, you are doomed to die God makes man a suitable partner from man's rib(woman) |
| Adam & Eve | Eating from the tree which they were forbidden to brings them shame Adam blames Eve Sin of Human Pride(thought God did not know best for them) Sin causes a loss of our relationship with God |
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