BIBLE: Authority of Scriptures

Authority of the Lord and a Collection of Gospels

The Gospels is the:

Lies beyond the documents

[Locus Authority] points to God / Jesus Christ: demands obedience because it is God himself who speaks

because God is the authority

[Locus Authority] behind Sacred Scripture is God of all time; then authority of Sacred Scripture extends to us

content itself

[Locus Authority] This authority of Sacred Scripture is contained / embedded in the _____ of the bible

not in the community that collected the tradition or that formed the canon; not in the reconstructed tradition that underlie the books of the Bible; not in the reconstructed "real jesus" of the Jesus Seminar; not in the personal experience/ reading of Sacred Scripture

False Loci of Authority:

diluted, authentically said, added/out words

There is something ______ in Sacred Scripture. Look for what Jesus _______. Local church just ______ in Jesus Christ's mouth.

validate, creates / corrects

Authority of Sacred Scripture functions not to ______ human experience rather, authority of Sacred Scripture _______ human experience

validate human experience, creates/corrects human experience

Authority of Sacred Scripture functions not to ______ rather, authority of Sacred Scripture ______

historians, evangelists, faith

The authority is not on the ______. Discover the real Jesus, not the one created by the _______, not the Christ of ______

life's questions, ideologies /social sciences, problem, normative in our life

Some find answers in ______ through _____: philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, natural sciences, pop

culture. The _____ is if they become ______

problematic

If Sacred Scripture just conform with social and natural sciences, culture, etc., it becomes _____.

normative

If we are to be Christians, Sacred Scripture should be ______.

ideology, distort the Word of God, own words

If Sacred Scripture is distorted into an _______ we ________—we only impose our _____

interpreted by the authority, Magisterium

The bible has to be ______ (for Catholics, it's the work of the ______)

ability to author reality

Authority of Sacred Scripture lies in its ____

Biological truth, cosmological truth, historical truth; religious truth, existential truths

Biblical Authority is

not about these: ______

But about these:

existential truth

our most fundamental questions (found/assessed by biblical witness)

carry out His salvific plans

Sacred Scripture have authority because God uses the text to ______

created, recognized

Biblical authority is not ______ by the Church but _____ by the Church

inconsistent with biblical witness

Any proclamation / way of life that is _____ is untrustworthy or questionable

proof-reading, open / cut, this is God's word for me, Literalize / transpose, new context

How can Sacred Scripture which is historically conditioned, meaning, written by finite man and woman, be normative or authoritative for all time in all situation?

False approach: _______

You cannot simply _____ the bible and say that ______

______ the original meaning to our ______

past context, re-interpret

How can Sacred Scripture which is historically

conditioned, meaning, written by finite man and

woman, be normative or authoritative for all time

in all situation?

Valid approach:

We need to re-interpret Sacred Scripture

Written in particular ______ so we need to ______ it

unchanging truth, changing formulation, incomplete and perfectible

How can Sacred Scripture which is historically conditioned, meaning, written by finite man and woman, be normative or authoritative for all time in all situation?

◂ Valid approach:

◂ Need to distinguish ______ for the ___ (Myst. Eccl. 1973)

◂ "All faith formulations are ______ and _____"

Rule of Faith, quarrel, has conflict, proper interpretation

How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ Irenaeus: _____

◂ Eventhough there are already canonical books, the leaders ______ / ______ with _____

◂ We have to refer to this rule

Irenaeus, creed, basic belief, christians

How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ _____: Rule of Faith

◂ We will find Sacred Scripture authority by the rule of faith

◂ Rule of faith: the ____ (our _____ as ____)

Schillebeeckx: Correlation Method

How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ ______

◂ Original reader / human author (text) = original meaning—cannot simply be transformed into our context without re-interpreting

◂ New reader (text) = new context / new meaning

original meaning, new context / new meaning

◂ How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ Schillebeeckx: Correlation Method

◂ Original reader / human author (text) = _______—cannot simply be transformed into our context without re-interpreting

◂ New reader (text) = _____

Pontifical Biblical Commission

How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ _______:

◂ We cannot simply research the meaning of the original text

◂ We need to know the canonical sense or biblical sense

◂ What does Sacred Scripture says as a whole (which is transmitted through Tradition)

meaning of the original text, canonical sense or biblical sense, whole

How do we apply Sacred Scripture to our situation today?

◂ Pontifical Biblical Commission:

◂ We cannot simply research the ____

◂ We need to know the ______

◂ What does Sacred Scripture says as a ______ (which is transmitted through Tradition)