self-reflection essay
Lucyya
Rels101PPTsLectures1-2.pptxLecture 1: What is the Bible?
1. What it is not -
-A book of laws
-A book about how to know what God wants me to do
-A book about how I should live
Lecture 1: What is the Bible?
2. What it is -
The Bible is:
A Story Conveying a “Worldview”
i. Why are stories important?
ii. What is a “Worldview”?
1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.
2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. (Free Online Dictionary)
iii. Why are worldviews important?
a. The Four great Questions of life and the need to answer them:
1. Who am I?
2. Where am I?
3. What’s wrong?
4. What is the solution?
Theology/World View
Values
Institutions
Individual
Behavior
iv. What do worldveiws enable us to do?
v. What are the ingredients of a worldview?
1. Stories
2. Symbols
3. Actions
Lecture 2. What is the Bible?
1. Ans. The Bible is the STORY of the Christian worldview
i. What is the main message of the Bible’s story?
Ans. The COMING of God’s kingdom into the world
ii. What are the main elements of a kingdom?
1. Common People
2. Common Law
3. Common Land
4. Common King
Summary: The Bible is the story of how God is gradually setting up his kingdom on earth so that one day the whole earth will become His Kingdom
2. How is the Bible Constructed?
The Old Testament (39 books)
2. The New Testament (27 books)
2. How is the Bible Constructed?
iii. The Old Testament Structure
a. 39 books divided into five parts:
Law – Genesis to Deuteronomy (5 bks)
History – Joshua to Esther (12 bks)
Wisdom – Job/Proverbs/Ecclesiastes (3 bks)
Poetry – Psalms/Song of Songs/ Lamentations (3 bks)
Prophets – Isaiah to Malachi (16 bks)
3. The genre’s in the OT and why it is important to know this?
“Kicking off 8 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 11, and going until it can't go anymore, the "Russian Old New Year Ball," celebrated at Star Theater (13 N.W. 6th Ave.), promises to be a great way to re-celebrate 2014.
“Defence was an issue when the Rapids took a 2-1 lead early in the second half. Goalie Clint Irwin sent a ball downfield and Deshorn Brown beat defender Young-Pyo Lee to the ball just inside the box.
1.Name of Book
3. Verse Number
2. Chapter Number
2 Chron. 14:14
4. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
i. Revelation – How God communicates knowledge of himself to humans
a. General Revelation – Creation points to God (Pss. 19:1-6)
b. Special Revelation – God himself communicates to people knowledge about himself and his acts
(Pss. 19:7-14)
c. Two reasons why we need revelation from God to know Him?
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
ii. Inspiration – How certain chosen people recorded God’s revelation
1 Tim. 3:15-16 – “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
b. How were God’s chosen people inspired?
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
a. How were God’s chosen people inspired?
Inspiration is not ‘dictation’
Inspiration is ‘concursive’
4. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
iii. Authority - How people of God view the Bible
a. What is ‘authority’? according to the Bible?
Creations as an example of God’s use of authority
God uses his authority to turn darkness into light, chaos into cosmos, death into life.
God has now placed that power in the Bible so that when it is read and applied it will bring life to people who are dead. That is the authority of the Bible
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
iv. Canon - How people of God know what books belong in the Bible
a. Definition of canon:
“A collection of books that functions as a communities’ authority in what to believe and how to live.”
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
iv. Canon - How people of God know what books belong in the Bible
b. How did the people of God get the canon?
Ans: Not by creating the canon, but by recognizing that certain books and writings had authority and others, even though good to read, did not have authority.
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
v. Text- How scholars make sure that what we read today was what the original author said.
b. The reason for the problem:
1. We do not have the original writings of the author. Only copies of copies of copies of copies.
2. None of the copies that we have, even when about the same story, are exactly the same.
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
v. Text- How scholars make sure that what we read today was what the original author said.
c. The solution: The science of Textual Criticism (TC).
What does TC do?
Ans: Textual Criticism uses the texts we now have to try and reconstruct what the original text was.
3. The Origin and Nature of the Bible
v. Text- How scholars make sure that what we read today was what the original author said.
d. How does TC restore the original text?
1. By finding the oldest copies
2. By comparing copies with copies
3. By the principle of Bengal’s Rule:
“The more difficult text is the more original text.”
