Bible Mid-Semester Review #1

Abeka Bible Doctrines

Bibleology

Doctrine of the Bible

Theology

Doctrine of God

Inspiration

God breathed

Holy

Set apart/sanctified

Revelation

God’s disclosing to man things about Himself

Illumination

God’s teaching the Christian the truths of God’s Word

Transcendence

Above God’s creation

Immanence

Involved with His creation

Eternity

No beginning or ending

Infinity

No limitation in space

Immutability

Unchangeable

Omniscience

All knowing

Omnipresence

Everywhere

Omnipotence

All powerful

Holiness

Separation from sin/evil

Justice

Remunerative/retributive

Righteousness

Always do right

Love

Concern for welfare of others

Mercy

Not giving us what we deserve

Grace

Giving what we don’t deserve

Truth

Cannot lie

Goodness

Bountiful dealing with man

Books in the Bible

66

New Testament

27

Old Testament

39

Natural inspiration

God gave the words to the writers

Partial inspiration

Contains the word of God

Conceptual inspiration

Inspiration of thoughts

Encounter

Becomes God’s word when it speaks to you

Human writers of Scripture

40

Canonicity

A book’s right to be included in the Bible

Hittites

Discovery of this empire confirmed the historical accuracy of the Bible

Determiner of Canonicity

God

Moses

Wrote the first 5 books of the Bible

Plenary

Full

Apocrypha

Books written between the OT and NT

Greek

Original language of NT

2 Tim 3:16-17

Rejects all four false views of inspiration

Doctrine

Teaching

Apocrypha

False because no claim of inspiration; contradiction

Psalm 22

Speaks of crucifixion; casting lots

Historical Prophecy

Destruction of Jerusalem; Peter’s death

Inerrancy

No error

Scientific Accuracy

Round earth; always night and day/seasons; Life in the blood

Belshazzar

Confirmed accuracy of the Bible

Division of OT in Jesus’s day

3

Verbal

By word

Graphe

To write

True

Spelling is important

Last book in Jesus’s day

2 Chronicles

35

References to OT by Jesus

Tittle

Smallest appendage in Hebrew

True

Jesus authenticated the OT

Requirements of OT writers

Prophetic authority

1947

Dead Sea Scrolls

True

Writing was advanced enough for the Pentateuch

Leviticus

90% quotes from God

Proofs of canonicity

Authentic, dynamic, prophetic, accepted, preserved

1500

Time to write the Bible

Deceptivity of cults

Partial truths

Study Scripture

Best way to combat cults

Inspiration of the Bible

Plenary verbal inspiration

Inspired

Most accurate account

Mechanical dictation

Mindless writers

Thus sayeth the Lord

3800 times

True

Writers recognized the inspiration of the scriptures

AD 303

Destruction of Bibles decreed by Diocletian

Isaiah 7:14

Virgin birth of Christ

Reasons to study the scripture

God says to, to know God’s Word, God tells us what to know

Micah 5:2

Birthplace of Christ

Canon

Measuring rod, rule, standard

Proofs of inspiration

God claims it, transforms lives, inerrancy, indestructibility, scientific accuracy, prophecy, historical accuracy

Zechariah 12:10

Death at Calvary