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Copy and Answer the Following
during discussion1. Who is the one who reveals himself?
2. Who were the people to whom he
revealed himself?
3. Who is the man through whom God
revealed himself?
4. What can we infer/deduce or concludeas the nature or quality of the
Revealer Himself?
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5. What do you call the book that
contains the stories and events of God’s revelation?
6. What makes this book different from
any other book that we know?7. What do you call the agreement or
alliance which God made with his
people?
8. What is God’s aim in revealing himself
to man through these people?
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9. What are the two main parts of
the Christian Scriptures?
10. Which part is initially the
Scriptures used by Jesus
himself?11. Whose story is written in the
gospels?
12. How long did it take for the OldTestament to be compiled in the
present composition?
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13.Who’s national history is written in the
Old Testament?
14.What are the books that were included
in the Catholic Christian Scriptures but
were not included in the Hebrew
Bible?
15.It refers to the list of books of the
Bible officially accepted by the Church
for being inspired.
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16.How many books are there in the
Catholic Bible? 17.What is the first and what is the last
book of the Bible?
18.Which is the original language of theOld Testament Scripture?
19.What do you call the acceptability of
books of the bible believed to havebeen inspired?
20.What do you call our response to the
Divine Revelation?
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fr. the Greek word apokalupsis
translated as “revelation” whichmeans “unveiling”
it is God’s personal loving communicationto us of who He is and His plan to
save us all in His love. (CFC 101)
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Revelation – from the word revelare
which means to “unveil” or take away
the cover of It is the "taking away the veil," God
making Himself known through words
and deeds in salvation history. (Cf.DV 2, 4, 6-11.)
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God Reveals Himself through Creation
The first way God reveals Himself to us is through
creation. "The heavens declare the glory of God,and the firmament proclaims His handiwork" (Ps
19:1).
God reveals himself to the Chosen People
God Revealed Himself through theScriptures
God Revealed Himself in fullness through
His Son, Jesus Christ
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God Reveals Himself through Christ present in the Church
God continues to Reveal Himself throughthe Sacraments
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PURPOSE: GOD’S PLAN
to make all of us united with Him: COVENANT
to make of humanity One FAMILY with God as
the Father and all of us brothers and sisters
To make know His love for humanity
notwithstanding its UNFAITHFULNESS
And because He loves us, he wants to save us
from self-destruction: SALVATION
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COVENANT
It is a solemn agreement between
two parties. A religious covenant is a
belief shared by members of areligious community that God has
made a formal alliance or agreement
with them or with humanity ingeneral. This sort of covenant is an
important concept in Judaism and
Christianity, derived in the first
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Examples of a covenant
relationship
Covenant with Noah: God will not destroy
humanity again
Covenant between Abraham: God will make him
the father of a great nation Covenant with between God and the Israelites –
“I will be your God and you will be my people.”
Leviticus 26:12
Between Jesus and his apostles – the New
Covenant” in which Jesus' sacrifice on the cross
would atone for the sins of all mankind.
(Matthew 26:28)
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SALVATION
In theology, salvation can mean three related
things: being saved from, or LIBERATION
from, something, such as suffering or the
punishment of sin – also calledDELIVERANCE; being saved for something,
such as an afterlife or participating in the
Reign of God – also called REDEMPTION; or
SOCIAL LIBERATION and healing, as inliberation theology.
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Salvation Experienced by Israel
Joseph-sold as a slave in Egypt to save his
people from famine
Moses – saved by the Egyptian princes to be
able to save Israel from Slavery
Cyrus I, King of Persia-gave Israel the freedom
to return from Babylon to Judea
But in all these “ I, even I, am Yahweh; andbeside me there is no Savior.” Isaiah 43:11
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God Reveals Himself
God has made Himself known to
us through Creation but also
through the Old Testament.Finally God made Himself known
to us by coming to live among us
as Jesus Christ.
We call this Divine Revelation.
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Divine Revelation
God has chosen to reveal
Himself bit by bit to us, not
all at once.
This revelation began with
Adam and Eve who used to
walk with Him in the
Garden. Later to the Israelites
They gave us the Old
Testament which tells of
God’s revelation to them.
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Divine Revelation
All of the Revelation of the Old
Testament lead to God’s greatest
Revelation.
For God so loved the world that hesent His only Son…Jesus Christ. [Jn
3,16]
Jesus chose Twelve Apostles and
taught them everything they needed
to know for salvation.
This revelation to them, the gospel,
was entrusted to those twelve and
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Divine Revelation
The Apostles passed this revelation in two forms,Scripture and Tradition (Preaching).
Together Scripture and Tradition form the deposit of faith, the full revelation of Christ.
One without the other is lacking, though alwaysvaluable.
Sacred Tradition includes teachings on the Trinity,Sacraments, and our Creed.
With the death of the last Apostle (John ~100AD) there willbe no further revelation.
The Church simply looks deeper and deeper into whatwe have been iven b Christ and his A ostles.
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The Magisterium
The teaching office of the Church is called theMagisterium.
The Church has the sacred duty to protect thedeposit of faith, that is all the things Godrevealed to us.
This is composed of the Pope and all the
bishops in union with him. They cooperate with the Holy Spirit to teach all
we know about God without error.
There have been many explanations of the truth
over 2000 years but the truths of our faith have
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1.Finally our Lord Jesus Chr is t ,
Son of God, came to earth toreveal Divine truths to men. After
His death, His Apostles and
disciples wrote about Him and His
teachings.
There are twenty-seven of these
books, composing the New Testament .
With the forty-six books of the OldTestament the Church gathered them
together into one Book called
Holy Scr ipture , or the Bib le .
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3. The deposit of faith which
Jesus Christ entrusted to theChurch is made up of two
parts: a] Holy Scripture and
b] Sacred Tradit ion , the
latter being composed of thetruths passed down by word
of mouth, and not written
down till after the death of
Christ's Apostles and
disciples, principally by theFathers of the Church.
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Approach to the Bible
1. Accept the Bible as the Word of God
The Bible is a library of books. Though the Bible
contains 73 books, yet it appears to be only one
book, far from being a library of books as it claimsto be.
In the ancient world literary works are written on
rolls which were bulky and unwieldy. These rolls
were made of papyrus and skins of animals.Papyrus is made from the papyrus plant, was
durable when kept dry but became increasingly
brittle. The book form called codex is either made
of papyrus or skin animals, emerged only about a
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Sacred Scriptures
The stories, events, poems, hymns of God’s
Revelations to his people is contained in the
SACRED SCRIPTURES.
The Sacred Scriptures therefore are theWORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE
LANGUAGE OF MAN.
The Scriptures are sacred because it is writtenthrough the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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The Bible is Inspired
“ The Holy Bible as the word of God written
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit they
have God as their author… In composing the
sacred books, God chose men and whileemployed by Him they made use of their own
powers and abilities, so that with Him acting in
them and through them, they, as true authors,
consigned to writing everything and only thosething which He wanted.” (Vatican II,
Constitution on Divine Revelation, ch.3, no. 11)
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THE FORMATION OF THE
SCRIPTURES
The Scriptures however was not formed in one
sitting. It took 1000 years and countless
authors before God’s Revelation was
committed into writing. Beginning with Abraham-2000 BC
Moses and the Exodus- 1300 BC
Kingship of David – 1000 BC
Babylonian Exile – 586 BC
Birth of Jesus – 0-4 AD
Death of Jesus – 27-30AD
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The Old Testament
1. First stage: Word acted out: God’s actual
revelation of Himself in the history of His
people.
2. Second stage: Oral tradition: The Jewish people naturally desired to
communicate and preserve their memorable
experiences with God.
They communicated these experiences orally –
in prose, poetry, songs, sermons, epics and other
forms of communication common to them.
This oral tradition of divine revelation was thelon est of the sta es of scri tural develo ment.
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Third stage: Writing and Editing
Gradually some Jewish writers wrote a few
accounts of some important events in their
history. Even so, oral tradition continued sideby side with the written accounts. It was
common then that one important event had
several oral accounts and a few written ones
circulating in different parts of the country. For
example, the story from Abraham to the
threshold of the Promised Land in the first five
books of the Bible (Pentateuch) was written in
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Two Parts of the Scriptures
Old Testament – or Hebrew Scriptures – it
contains the stories from the Creation up to the
Maccabees when the corrupt Hasmonean
dynasty rules Israel New Testament – It contains the gospels, Acts
of the Apostles and the epistles and end with
the Book of Revelation
Together, the Old Testament and the new
Testament for the Christian Scriptures
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Old Testament divisions
Torah or the Law-composed of the first five
books of the OT commonly called the “Books
of Moses” namely, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy Nevi’im or the Prophets = This division
includes the books which cover the time from
the entrance of the Israelites into the Land of
Israel until the Babylonian captivity of Judah
(the "period of prophecy")
Kethubim or the Writings sometimes also
known by the Greek title "Hagiographa" and
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New Testament Divisions
Gospels – the book that contains the words and deeds
of Jesus, the Christ
Acts – the narrative that contains the life of the early
Church
Pauline epistles - letters written either by Paul or for
Paul addressed to the communities and persons of the
early Christian Churches
Catholic epistles - The name given to the Epistle of St.
James, to that of St. Jude, to two Epistles of St.
Peter and the first three of St. John
Book of Revelation – the last book of the Bible also
called Apocalypse and deals with the themes of the end
times
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How many are the books of the
Bible?
Catholic Version=73
Old Testament = 46
New Testament = 27
Protestant Version = 66 Old Testament = 39 (plus 9 Apocrypha or
Deuterocanonicals)
New Testament = 27 Hebrew Bible = 24 (Some books are
considered as one like Chronicles 1 & 2)
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Canonicity
The word canon comes from the Hebrew word
“kaneh” meaning a reed which can be used as
a ruler. The Greek word for it “kanon” means a
measuring rod. Applied to the Bible, the termcanon refers to a norm of revealed truth, a rule
of faith. So CANONICITY refers to the
acceptability of certain list of books by the
Church as be inspired and to contain a rule of faith and morals while CANON refers to the
books accepted as authoritative by the
Church.
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Original Biblical Languages
Hebrew Bible- Hebrew – this is the Bible of
the Jews which probably Jesus read and
studied.
Septuagint – Greek – this is the Hebrew Bibleas translated into Greek in about 200 BC
New Testament – Greek Koine or the
common Greek of the New Testament era Vulgate – Latin – the Christian Bible translated
into Latin by St. Jerome in about 400 AD
(Ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of God)
F ith O R t G d’
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Faith as Our Response to God’s
Revelation
If God make Himself known through revelation,
therefore, our acceptance of His revelation is
acceptance of God Himself. That is our Faith,
our response to God. Because of faith wecommit our whole self to God.
Faith therefore is our acceptance and
response to what God revealed to us through
the Sacred Scriptures.
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Charac ter ist ics o f Faith
Faith is a free act. It is never forced upon us.
Faith brings joy and ease to love God.
Faith brings a deeper understanding of
revelation.
Faith brings people together to form a
community.
Wh t d " f i th" i d il
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What does " fai th" mean in daily
li fe?
Faith in general means the way we know,
accept, and relate positively to others,
especially the mutual trust, love, and fidelity
we experience in family and friendships.
What is meant by "Catholic
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What is meant by "Catholic
faith"?
Catholic Faith is "to know, love, and follow
Jesus Christ in his Body, the Church" (PCP II
36).
It is that attitude, activity, and process by whichwe, empowered by God's grace:
To freely commit our entire selves to God,
To offer our liberty, our understanding and our
whole will to God who reveals Himself and His
plan, and
To willingly assent to His Revelation (cf. DV 5).
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