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The document discusses the Bible, describing it as a collection of divinely inspired books split into two main parts, the Old and New Testaments. It provides details on the New Testament, including that it is centered around Jesus Christ as the Son of God who defeated death and original sin. It also covers the Old Testament as being before Jesus and anticipating his coming.

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Class 5 - 5 - 21

The document discusses the Bible, describing it as a collection of divinely inspired books split into two main parts, the Old and New Testaments. It provides details on the New Testament, including that it is centered around Jesus Christ as the Son of God who defeated death and original sin. It also covers the Old Testament as being before Jesus and anticipating his coming.

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The Bible

● A collection of divinely inspired books


● More of a library, less of a single book
● The Word of God, in the words of men
● Split into two main parts, Old and New testament
● One of THREE pillars of authority in the Church
The New Testament
● The Center
-The centrality and essential nature of the New
Testament
-The New Covenant between God and humanity
-The escape from Original Sin
● Historical Writings
-The Gospels, The Acts, The Letters of from Paul, etc
-sans Revelation*
-”Once upon a time” v.s. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of
Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and
Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of
Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene”
(Luke 3:1)
● Jesus Christ, Son of God
-God became man
-God defeated death
-God defeated original sin
-The culmination of all that the Old testament
anticipates

The Old Testament


● Before Jesus
-The Fall
-The Old Covenant between God and man
-Sacrifice for worship and for the forgiveness of sin
-The Moral and Ritual Law
-Reading the Old in light of the New

Understanding Difficult Passages


● St Irinaeus: Gradual Revelation
-Learning about the sun
-Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah
-Battle speech for a warring people
● St Augustine: God’s Authority Over Life
-We are not the lord of life, God gives life, God can
take it away
-Finally, it is God’s business to enact punishment
upon a sinful humanity in whatever way He wills
● Origen of Alexandria: Allegory and Metaphor
-Reading certain books by allegory, or metaphor
-Hacking Agag to pieces
-Faithful to my wife 90% of the time
-Read the whole Bible in light of the Lamb standing as though
slain (Rev 5:6)

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