1_NT-Survey-a (1).ppt by Swapan Mondal and editing by Rev Rajiv Arohan

theological perspective

1. Introduction
© John Stevenson, 2013

2. Dr. John T. Stevenson
http://JohnStevenson.net
[email protected]
[email protected]

3. Group Introductions
•Your name
•Your home church
•Where are you in the TIU process?
•What classes have you already
taken in the area of the Old or New
Testament?

4. Course Objectives
•Define the parts of the New Testament
Canon and the principles of its formation.
•Apply hermeneutics to biblical passages
and explain the importance of
hermeneutics in avoiding interpretation
errors.
•Reasons for reading and studying the
New Testament and applying it to daily
life.

5. Course Objectives
•Define ‘Gospel’ and concisely describe
the relationship between Jesus Christ
and the ‘Gospel of Good News’ found in
the New Testament.
•Describe the main themes found in the
gospels, epistles, and Revelation.
•Recognize the cultural, religious, and
other effects of the Greek society on the
pre-Christian and Early Church world.

6. Course Objectives
•Describe the theological significance and
real world relevance of Jesus’ death on
the cross for the entire world.
•Explain the relationship between New
Testament believers and Old Testament
teaching.
•Distinguish between Jesus’ first coming
and His second coming from relevant
scripture passages.

7. Textbook
Walter Elwell &
Robert Yarbrough
(2005).
Encountering the
New Testament:
A historical and
theological survey.
Grand Rapids:
Baker, 2008

8. Applied Learning Paper
•Inspiring Figure of the New
Testament
•The Story of the New Testament
Select one of these two topics

9. What is the “Bible?”

10. How do we know the right
books are in the Bible?

11. The Greek Kanon
•It had to be unbendable
•It had to be dependable
as to its straightness
KANWN

12. Canonicity refers to the church’s
recognition of the authority of
the inspired writings.

13. How was the Bible Written?

14. All Scripture is inspired by God
and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for
training in righteousness; that
the man of God may be
adequate, equipped for every
good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

15. All Scripture is inspired by God
and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for
training in righteousness; that
the man of God may be
adequate, equipped for every
good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Theopneustos

16. All Scripture is inspired by God…
•The Fact of Inspiration
•The Extent of Inspiration

17. All Scripture is inspired by God…
•The Fact of Inspiration
•The Extent of Inspiration
•The Object of Inspiration

18. •Neo-Orthodoxy Theory
•Mechanical Dictation Theory
•Limited Inspiration
•Verbal Plenary Inspiration

19. The Church was born with a
completed Canon

20. The Testimony of Josephus
“For we have not an innumerable
multitude of books among us,
disagreeing from and
contradicting one another [as the
Greeks have], but only twenty-two
books, which contain the records
of all the past times; which are
justly believed to be divine...”
(Contra Apion 1:8).

21. The Testimony of Josephus
“It is true, our history has been
written since Artaxerxes, very
peculiarly, but has not been
esteemed of the like authority
with the former by our
forefathers, because there has
not been an exact succession of
prophets since that time.”
(Contra Apion 1:8).

22. The New Testament
A Question of Apostolic
Authority
…having been built on the
foundation of the apostles and
prophets (Ephesians 2:20)

23. Can our copies of the Bible be
trusted?

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25. Fundamental Questions in
Hermeneutics
•What did it mean to the original
characters of the narrative?
•What did it mean to the author?
•What did it mean to the original
recipients?

26. Readers Today
Original Author Original Readers
Bible

27. Fundamental Questions in
Hermeneutics
•What did it mean to the original
characters of the narrative?
•What did it mean to the author?
•What did it mean to the original
recipients?
•What does it tell us about our
understanding of the Old
Testament?

35. Caesarea●
Jerusalem
●
Joppa●
(Modern Tel Aviv)

36. Caesarea
Herod’s City by the Sea

47. Jezreel
Sown By God

48. Caesarea●
Jerusalem
●
Joppa●
(Modern Tel Aviv)

50. Sea of
Galilee
●
Megiddo
●
Nazareth

54. Separating the
Wheat from the Tares

57. Sea of
Galilee
●
Megiddo
●
Nazareth
●
Tiberias

61. Sea of
Galilee
●
Megiddo
●
Nazareth
●
Tiberias
Capernaum●

70. ●
Nazareth
Capernaum●
●
Tiberias
(Dan)

74. So the king consulted, and made
two golden calves… And he set
one in Bethel, and the other he
put in Dan (1 Kings 12:28-29)

75. Now this thing became a sin, for
the people went to worship before
the one as far as Dan (1 Kings
12:30)

76. ●
Nazareth
Capernaum●
●
Tiberias
●
Laish
(Dan)
Caesarea
Philippi
●

93. Jerusalem
The City of God

94. Caesarea●
Jerusalem
●
Joppa●
(Modern Tel Aviv)

111. Now there is in
Jerusalem by the
sheep gate a pool,
which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda,
having five
porticoes (John
5:2)

112. In these lay a
multitude of those
who were sick, blind,
lame, and withered
(John 5:3)

113. And a certain man was
there, who had been
thirty-eight years in his
sickness. 6When Jesus
saw him lying there, and
knew that he had
already been a long
time in that condition,
He said to him, "Do you
wish to get well?" (John
5:5-6)

114. The sick man answered Him,
"Sir, I have no man to put me
into the pool when the water
is stirred up, but while I am
coming, another steps down
before me." (John 5:7)

147. Old
Testament
World
•Different geographical
regions
•Different languages
•Different national
invaders
•Different types of
literature
New
Testament
World

148. What are some similarities between
the Old and New Testaments?
•Both speak of a Covenant.
•Both are of a historical
value.
•Both attest to Christ, the
Messiah