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59 Cards in this Set
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How many books are in the Bible? |
The Bible is made up of 73 books |
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How many words are in the Bible? |
There are approximately 807 341 words in the entire Bible |
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How many years of History does the Bible cover? |
The Bible covers more than 1,600 years of History |
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How many sections is the Bible divided into? |
The Bible is divided into two sections. The Old Testament also known as the Hebrew scriptures, and the New Testament ( BC or BCE and AC Anno Domini or ACE) |
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How many books are in the Old Testament? |
There are 46 books in the Old Testament. It was composed over a period of 1000 years |
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How many people wrote the Bible |
Approximately 40 writers help to create the Bible |
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What were the sections of the Old Testament? |
Pentateuch or Torah, history, wisdom and poetry, and prophecy |
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What sections were in the New Testament? |
Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, letters, and Revelations |
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What is Torah? |
Torres the first five books of the Bible they were written by Moses |
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What is in the books of history? |
History describes the obedience and Disobedience of God's people is directly tied to the blessings and curses of the Covenant |
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What is wisdom and poetry? |
Wisdom and poetry were inspired to search for the meaning of life. Authors use poetry in Proverbs, sayings and songs, and they face the problems of our origin and Destiny, of human suffering, good and evil, right and wrong. |
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What is prophecy and who were they written by? |
God use the profits to provide Direction in wisdom during the times of Christ and to remind people of their covenantal promises. The prophets were teachers or Proclaimers of the Goodwill |
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How many books were in the New Testament |
There were 27 books in the New Testament. It was composed over a period of 60 years following the death of Jesus. |
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What are the Gospels? |
The gospels are books written by Matthew Mark Luke and John that tell stories about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Gospel means good news |
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What is the Acts of the Apostles? |
Acts of the Apostles were written by Luke. It describes the early history of the Christian church and how the Christian church spread. |
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What is letters? |
The first section wears written by Paul. The other letters were written by Peter James Jude and other people. The letters were written to give people hope when they were persecuted for their faith. |
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What are the revelations? |
The revelations are the final prophecy. John describes his visions of the end of the world, including some bullet descriptions of The Last Judgement and Heaven. It speaks of the apocalypse and how the world will come to an end |
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What types of biblical interpretations are there? |
There is literal interpretations and contextual interpretations |
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What are contextual interpretations influenced by? |
1. culture of author 2. geography of land 3. issues of the time 4. author's purpose 5. author's audience 6. language to use 7. author style of writing |
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What are the literary forms? |
Met, list, prophecy, law, sermon, history, letter, Proverbs, Parables, Psalms, Legend |
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What is a myth? |
Stories focusing on the Deeds of God or Heroes often explaining natural phenomenons. Creation stories |
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What is a list? |
An itemized series of names, words, Etc, usually recorded in set order |
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What is a prophecy? |
A prediction made under Divine influence and direction. The revelations |
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What is law? |
A rule of conduct, moral principle, excetera, derive from a generally recognized concept of universal justice |
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What is a sermon? |
A speech of a serious or so I'm kind of pronouncement. Advice on how to live, Jesus and Moses were noted for delivering sermons |
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What is history? |
A record or announcement usually written in chronological order of past events, especially those concerning particular Nations or people |
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What is a letter? The literary form |
A written or printed message, usually of a personal nature or concerning a specific subject |
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What's a psalm |
A sacred song or poem |
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Parable |
A story which teaches us a lesson or provides insight into human nature, qualities about God, the kingdom of God, and how we ought to behave |
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What are the 6 kinds of truths in the bible |
1. Religious truth 2. Moral truth 3. Symbolic truth 4. proverbial truth 5. Historical truth 6. Scientifical truth |
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Religious truth |
Truth based on faith. It describes our relationship with God and one another |
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Moral truth |
The difference between right and wrong |
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Symbolic truth |
Told through myths and symbol so we must read between the lines. E.g. creation stories |
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Proverbial truth |
Saying and phrases that are practical and often repeated. Teach us to view life in a certain way |
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Historical truth |
There is historical truth in the Bible. Example of historical events also recorded elsewhere |
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Scientific truth |
Scientific information from the time the Bible was written is included, however there is very little of this in the Bible considering that the target audience of the Bible couldn't understand the scientifical explanations |
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Day 1 of creation |
Light and darkness for divided |
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Day two of creation |
Sky and water where divided |
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Day 3 of creation |
Land, seize and vegetation were created |
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Day 4 of creation |
Sun, moon, stars, days, seasons and years were created |
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Day 5 of creation |
Fish and birds were created |
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Day 6 of creation |
Animals and Mankind were created |
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Day 7 of creation |
God rested |
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scripture |
Stories in the Bible. Sacred text |
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Divine inspiration |
When the writers of the Bible were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write the scriptures |
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Testament |
Means agreement or Covenant |
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Bible |
It is a book that reveals the origin, mission in Destiny of man. It is like a library of many scriptures. 5 billion copies of this book have been sold. It comes from the Greek word "ta Biblia" holy books |
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Bc |
Before Christ |
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B.C.E |
Before common era |
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A.D |
Anno Domini |
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C.E |
Common era |
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Hebrew scriptures |
The old testament written by the Hebrew |
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Torah aka. Pentateuch |
The first 5 books of the bible |
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Literalist |
Those who read and interpret the bible word for word |
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Contextualist |
Those who understand the word in the bible in the broad context |
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Evangelist |
Teachers, teachers, someone converts people to Christianity. The gospels |
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Patriarch |
Biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race |
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Prophets |
A teacher or proclaimed of the good will |
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Covenant |
An agreement made between God and someone or a group of people |
