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The Bible: Where It Came From, How It Was Made, It's Various Parts, and Why It Is The Holy Book of Christianity

12/19/2017

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Lesson:  Facts about our Faith

II Timothy 2:15
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."



The Bible (from Koine Greek , ta biblia “the books”—a paper or scrool) a collections of sacred texts or scriptures that was  Christians considered to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans. The word Bible means a collection of writings or library of books. II Timothy 2:15 “Righty divide His word.

II Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
  • The Bible is the inspired word of God
  • The Holy spirit, intervened and influenced the words, message and collation of the Bible
  • The Bible is also the infallible word of God and incable of error in matters of faith and practice
  • The Bible represents the inerrant word of God, without error in any aspect, historical, factual and theologically
  • The Word was spoken by God and written in its perfect form by humans.
  • The bible is the biblia sacra “holy book”.
  • Protestant churches focus on the idea of solo scriptura, or scripture alone.
-The Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated total sales of over 5 billion copies.  Annually around 100 million bibles are sold.

The Septuagint , or the LXX, is a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures and some related texts into Koine Greek, began in the late 3rd century BCE and completed by 132 BCE, originally in Alexandria, but in time it was completed elsewhere as well.
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The oldest extant copy of a complete Bible is an early 4th –century parchment book preserved in the Vertical Library, and it is known as the Codex Vaticanus.
  • The bible consists of 66 distinct books; 39 in Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. When the books of the Bible were originally written, they did not contain chapters or verse references.  The bible was divided into chapters and verses to help us find Scriptures more quickly and easily.  It is much easier to find “John chapter 3, verse 16” than it is to find “for God so loved the world….”
  • The Bible was first divided into chapters around 1250 by a Dominical by the name of Hugo de Sancto Caro, who became  Cardinal. Cardinal suggested  preparing a concordance to the Scriptures – the Vulgate or Latin Bible.
  • Chapters division commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter division into place in around A.D. 1227.  The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern.
  • The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Mordecai Nathan in A.D. 1448, Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divided the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555.
  • The Geneva Bible from the sixteenth century was the first Bible to include both chapter and verse divisions for both Old and New Testaments.
  • The bible includes 1, 189 chapters 979 in the Old Testament, 260 in the New Testament;  Apocrypha not included.
  • The shortest verse of  the Bible is John 11:35, Jesus wept. The longest verse of the Bible is Ester 8:9.
  • Five books consist of only one chapter (Obadiah, Philemon, 2nd John, 3rd John, Jude)
  • The book of Psalms has the most chapters – 150.
 
Major Division of the Old Testament
 
The Pentateuch  - five scroll-cases,  (Commonly the first five books of the Bible) – The Hebrew –speaking Jewish community referred to these five books as “The Law,” “Torah,” or “The Law of Moses.” Torah – means “teaching” or “instruction.”
  • Genesis (Beresheeth Heb) (the first 11 chapters of Genesis provide accounts of the creation (or ordering) of the world and the history of God’s early relationship with humanity. The remaining 39 chapters of Genesis provide an account of God’s covenant with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (also called Israel) and Jacob’s children, the “Children of Israel,” mainly Joseph.
  • Exodus - Shemot
  • Leviticus - Vayikra
  • Numbers - Bamidbar
  • Deuteronomy - Devarim
History (Describing how the obedience or disobedience of God’s people is directly tied to the blessing and curses of the covenant).  In the Hebrew arrangement , Joshua, Judges, and he books of Samuel and Kings form a group of books called “the Former Prophets” due to the prophetic view from which they’re written. Neviim , Hebrew for Prophets. Former prophets are the books, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. Begin immediately after the death of Moses with the divine appointment of Joshua as his successor, who then leads the people of Israel into the Promised Land, and end with the releases from imprisonment of the last king of Judah. The latter prophets are dividing into two groups the “major” prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and the Twelve “Minor prophets.”
  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Ruth - Ruth
  • 1st and 2nd Samuel
  • 1st and 2nd Kings
  • 1st and 2nd Chronicle – Divrei ha-Yamim
  • Ezra - Ezra
  • Nehemiah
  • Ester - Ester
Poetry or  Wisdom Writings (The fear of the Lord) which is the beginning of wisdom
  • Job - lyyobh
  • Psalms  (Tehillim Heb)( consist of five divisions: 1 Psalm 1-41, Book 2 of Psalms 42-72, Book 3 of Psalms 73-89, Book 4 of Psalms 90-106, and Book 5 of Psalms 107-150)
  • Proverbs - Mishlei
  • Ecclesiastes - Qoheleth
  • Song of Salomon – Shir Hashshirim
Major Prophets (These Books were declared “major” because of the amount of text and not because they were considered more important than the “minor” prophetic books.) the Old Testament prophet tended to be revealed during times of crises. God used the prophets to provide direction and wisdom during times of crisis. They were also used by God to remind the people of their covenantal promises. Prophecy in the bible is part of God’s self-revelation, by which we come to know God through what He has done in the past and what He plans to do in the future.
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • Lamentations - Eikhan
  • Ezekiel
  • Daniel - Daniel
Minor Prophets  (part of the “classical prophecy” era of the Old Testament. The classical prophecy era began in the eighth century during the reign of Jeroboam II in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. These prophets addressed both he king and the people and became social-spiritual commentators for the Jewish people.)
  • Hosea - Hoshea
  • Amos - Amos
  • Joel-Yoel
  • Obadiah - Ovadyah
  • Jonah - yonah
  • Micah - Mikhan
  • Nahum - Nahum
  • Habakkuk - Havakuk
  • Zephaniah - Tsefanya
  • Zechariah - Zekharyah
  • Malachi - Malakhi
 
New Testament
Gospels (Gospel by four so called by Eusebius) or (Synoptic Gospels)
  • Matthew
  • Mark
  • Luke
  • John
History
  • Acts
Letters of Paul (Epistles)
  • Romans
  • 1st  and 2nd Corinthians
  • Galatians
  • Ephesians
  • Philippians
  • Colossians
  • 1st and 2nd Thessalonians
  • 1st and 2nd Timothy
  • Titus
  • Philemon
General letters
  • Hebrews
  • James
  • 1st and 2nd Peter
  • 1st  2nd and 3rd John
  • Jude
Prophecy
  • Revelation
 
Pastoral Epistles (All three are letters from an old man at the close of his ministry who is concerned for his successors in the pastorate. As such, the letters concern the things that would be crucial for the young pastors to understand—church organization and discipline, including such matters as the appointment of elders and deacons, the opposition of rebellious members or false teachers, and the maintenance of doctrinal purity.)
  • 1st and 2nd Timothy
  • Titus

Prison Epistles (The Prison Epistles refer to four letters in the New Testament written by the apostle Paul during his time under house arrest in Rome between approximately 60—62 AD. The first three of these epistles were written to specific local groups of Christians in the cities for which the books were named. Ephesians was written to the believers at Ephesus and covers areas of doctrine (chapters 1—3) and application (chapters 4—6). Of great importance is this letter's emphasis on salvation by grace through faith alone (Ephesians 2:8-9), church unity (Ephesians 4), and spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:10-18).
  • Ephesians,
  • Philippians,
  • Colossians,
  • and Philemon.
 
What did Thomas Jefferson believe?
The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels which contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages indicating Jesus were divine. Jefferson cut and pasted his arrangement of selected verses from the King James Version[8] of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order, putting together excerpts from one text to those of another in order to create a single narrative.
 
 
 
 
This Bible Study Was Written And Taught By Rev. Jesse Adams (M.Div.), Senior Pastor of Oak Level Baptist Church in N.C.


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