The Holy Bible: The Unity Of The Scripture

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The Unity of the Scripture Without God, the human race would cease to exist. He created all that is, was, and will ever be. God made humanity in His own image and likeness, to be like Him. However, man fell from the Garden of Eden, losing the likeness, or divinity that made humans so closely related to God. God put enmity between the devil and man and would continue to intervene in the lives of the chosen peoples of the human race. Eventually, God gave His only son, Jesus Christ to die for the sins of humanity and to show victory over the devil in living beyond physical death. All of these events can be found in the documented word of God, the Holy Bible. Throughout this work of divine revelation the Old Testament and New Testament are closely related. Throughout the Old Testament, from the Beginning, Genesis, to before the birth of Jesus Christ, the New Testament is foreshadowed, and hidden; it is to be a true fulfillment of the Old Testament in the promise of a …show more content…
We, Catholics, uphold the Bible to be the true, inerrant word of God. By doing so, we acknowledge God’s intervention in human history. Ever since creation, God eluded to the coming of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Not only is the messiah referenced to be our future savior in Genesis, he is also foreshadowed throughout the rest of the New Testament. Likewise, the Old Testament is fully fulfilled in the New Testament. By Jesus’s dying on the cross for all of our sins, all of the promises God the Father and the Holy Spirit made in the Old Testament are entirely completed. I realize this to be true along with all of those who read God’s Holy Word and uphold the mystery of the Trinity as inerrant. All Catholics around the world, myself included, do entirely believe in this unique unity of the word of God, the Bible, the one and only true

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