Bible Docs Test 1

our attempt to organize God's revelation into component parts

systematic theology

God revealed Himself

Bibliology

God exists

Theology Proper

God sacrificed Himself

Christology

God draws men to Himself

Pneumatology

God employs ministering spirits

Angelology

belief that there was no supernatural aspect of the Bible; the writers were inspired of God with heightened creativity

natural inspiration

belief that some of the Bible is inspired, some is not inspired

partial inspiration

God inspired that thoughts and ideas of the Bible; men wrote in their own words

conceptual inspiration

a thought-for-thought translation (emphasizes understanding)

dynamic equivalency

the Bible becomes the Word of God when it's meaningful to you

experiential inspiration

God merely supervised the writers of the Bible, allowing them to write down what they experienced, what they thought, and what they did, as long as no error or mistakes crept in

superintendence

all the words are breathed out by God

plenary inspiration/verbal inspiration

"the writings"

Scripture

God gave the words that the writers wrote down

dictation

a straw man argument that the writers became robots or zombie-like, their consciousness being suspended, while writing Scripture

mechanical dictation

without error

inerrancy

original document of a given book

autographs

copy of an original document

apograph

incorruptibility of the Word of God in its transmission through the generations

infallibility

rule or standard

canon

the study of which books are included in the Scriptures

canonicity

the process of recognition of canonical books

canonization

Peter recognizing Paul's writings as "Scripture" (date)

AD 64

Book of Revelation completes New Testament canon (date)

AD 90

earliest listing of New Testament books

Muratorian Fragment

earliest listing of New Testament books (date)

AD 170

Irenaeus' list of "undisputed books" includes 80% of the New Testament (date)

AD 175

Origen adds Hebrews and Jude to Irenaeus' list (date)

AD 220

wrote "Ecclesiastical History" (AD 325)

Eusebius

Athanasius lists only our present 27 N.T. books as "canonical" (date)

AD 340

Gregory of Nazianzus "Concerning the Genuine Books of Divinely Inspired Scripture" (date)

AD 380

Council of Carthage (date)

AD 397

smallest Hebrew leter in the Hebrew alphabet

jot/yod

smallest part of the Hebrew and English language

tittle

a Jewish sect credited with copying the OT text

Masoretes

NT Greek text received by God's people (together with the Masoretic Text) forms the basis of the KJV

Received Text

named in 1633 by the Elzevir brothers, the Greek NT received by God's people (another name for the Received Text)

Textus Receptus

translation philosophy where the words from the Greek andHebrew are rendered as closely to word-for-word as possible intothe English without changing the meaning intended by the originallanguage (emphasizes accuracy of translation)

formal equivalency

collagion of primarily two Greek manuscripts called Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in 1881 by B.F. Wescott and A.J. Hort

Critical text

to lift or carry across

translate

the indwelling Holy Spirit giving the ability to understand Scripture

illumination

a discarded codex found in a wastepaper bin in a monastery

Sinaiticus

a codex of questionable origin "discovered" by the Roman Church when their beliefs were challenged

Vaticanus

a complete, handwritten copy of a work, such as a book or selection

manuscript

a small scrap containing a few verses

fragment

a collective of manuscripts into a large volume

codex

a printed worship manual that contained/quoted huge amounts of Scripture

Lectionary

God has promised to preserve His Word.

Matthew 5:17-18

The Word of God will stand forever

Isaiah 40:8

The words of the Bible are inspired by God and sufficient for all man's needs

2 Timothy 3:16-17

The Bible is ultimately authored by the Holy Spirit

2 Peter 1:20-21

God's Word is living and active

Hebrews 4:12