Bibliology
Prior = a statement based on assumptions without having given adequate demonstrations.
Epistemology = the study of how people gain knowledge (know things with certainty).
General Revelation = God speaks to all people in all places at all times in a similar way.
Natural Theology = Construct everything you need to know about God apart
from scriptures.
Thomas Aquinas = his proofs of God’s existence (Cosmological, Teleological,
Anthropological).
John Calvin = God has given objective revelation via nature (history, sin makes
things blurry, must put on “spectacles of faith”).
Karth Barth = God is to infinite/perfect for us to know Him without special revelation.
Pluralism = Everybody is right no matter what they believe.
Inclusivism = Everyone will come to God through Jesus Christ at some time in their life.
Exclusivism = Believe x, or else you are wrong.
Restrictivist View = Salvation is restricted to those who heard the gospel and accepted it.
Universal Opportunity View = Personal Salvation History if the person wants it.
Postmortem Evangelism View = People are given a chance to accept/reject Christ
after death.
Special Revelation = God revealing Himself to people.
Gabriel = messenger from God
Michel = Fighting the Devil.
Bible in Greek = papyrus, scripture.
Scripture = writings, special revelation.
Testament (Latin) = covenant
Canon (Greek) = measurement, reed.
Barnch = scribe for Jeremiah (perhaps the one scribe who was Inspired by God)
Moses wrote the OT about 2,500 years after the events took place.
Canonicity is determined by God and is recognized by people.
Legomena = generally accepted.
Antilegomena = sometimes rejected.
Apocrypha = hidden away, sometimes accepted.
Pseudepigrapha = false writings, generally rejected.
NT Canon became the canon by Circulation, Collection, Conversations, Canonization.
Transmission= copy works in the same language
LXX = Septuigne 3rd century
Early Bible translations = Vulgate AD 400 by Jerome
Formal Equivalence = word for word
Dynamic Equivalence = idea for idea
Paraphrase Equivalence = simplest language form for targeted audience.
Inspiration = A study of relationships and the Bible.
Dictation = God dictated every word to the writers.
Concept = General ideas are inspired, but not the words.
Degree = Parts of the Bible are more inspired than others.
Partial = Only some parts of the Bible are inspired.
Intuition Natural = God gifted certain people in general and some of them
wrote scriptures.
Illumination / Mystical = God heightened the normal powers of the writers.
Neo- Orthodox = the Bible becomes the Word of God when we encounter God
personally in it.
Inspiration verbal = The words themselves are inspired
Plenary = All of the words are inspired.
Confluence = Divine and human activity, mysteriously yet wonderfully.
Inerrancy = without error.
The Bible claims that it is :
Mahor = clean in ceremonial way
Tsarach = purified in a refined way
Tamon = perfect or complete
Amon = reliable, verifiable
Emeth – true
Tsadele = Righteous
Syllogism of Inerrancy = Bible is the Inspired word of God, God cannot lie, God’s
word is completely true.
2 Tim 3:16-17 (NIV)
16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Pet 1:21 (ESV)
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were
carried along by the Holy Spirit.
