History of the Holy Scriptures the Bible.ppt

This presentation will provided in depth history of the bible as a source of Gods inspiration and message

2. Biblical Inspiration
Dynamic Inspiration
Mechanical Dictation
Organic Inspiration

3. Organic Inspiration
Inspired by God:
2 Peter 1:21 – “…no prophecy of Scripture had its origin
in the will of man.”
2 Tim. 3:16 – “All Scripture is God-breathed…”
Acts 4:25 – “You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the
mouth of your servant, our father David…”
Using the vocabulary & style of human
writers:
Example: Luke 1:1-4

4. Organic Inspiration
Paul’s style: long sentences, extensive vocabulary, complex
grammar, high literary style.
One sentence in the original Greek:
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For this reason I kneel before the Father,
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from
whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
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I pray that out of his
glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted
and established in love,
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may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to
grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
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and to know this love
that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of
God.
Ephesians 3:14-19

5. Organic Inspiration
John’s style: short sentences, basic
vocabulary, simple grammar, style of a
fisherman!
One sentence in the original Greek:
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This is the disciple who
testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that
his testimony is true.
John 21:24

6. Wild Papyrus
A common plant found along the
river banks of Africa, Palestine,
and the Mediterranean Sea. The
stalk is “stringy,” such that the
papyrus-maker removes the
strands, and lays them out in
parallel and in multiple layers to
form ancient paper. The longer
the strands, the wider the sheet
that could be made. This is the
writing medium of the original
New Testament manuscripts.

9. Scribes
ANCIENT
COPY
MACHINES

10. Fragment of
Ancient Manuscript
ca. 120 AD
From the Gospel of John, this
papyrus fragment is from an early
copy of the New Testament.
Because of its date, it was
produced by a scribe not long after
the apostle John's death.

11. Early Complete
Manuscripts of
NT, ca. 300-400
AD
Later manuscripts are better
preserved, and can be found
in complete books instead of
just fragments. This
manuscript is called Codex
Vaticanus.

12. Canonicity
Clement, bishop of Rome, in 96 AD:
For thus saith the holy Word: “The Lord hath severely
chastened me, yet hath he not given me over to death” [Psalm
118:18]. “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” [Hebrews 12:6].
1st Clement
 to Corinthians 56:3,4
Other early church fathers, direct disciples of the apostles,
quoted from the NT extensively as Scripture: Polycarp, Papias,
Ignatius, and others

13. Canonicity
3
rd
Council of Carthage, 339 AD

14. Canonicity
Four Tests of Canonicity:
Apostolicity
The writing must have been written by an apostle, or close associate of an apostle.
Godly Content
The writing must have the majesty and style of having been written by God.
Universality
The writing must have already been adopted universally by the churches.
Divine Inspiration
The writing must have already been considered as God’s Word, not just a good book.

15. Canonicity
Gospel of Thomas?
Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary go away from us, for women are not
worthy of life. Jesus said; Le, I shall lead her, so that I may make her a
male, that she too may become a living spirit, resembling you males. For
every woman who makes herself a male will enter the kingdom of
heaven.
Thomas 114
Written around 150 AD
Lacks godly content
Not universally accepted as Scripture by early churches
No evidence of early Christians accepting it as inspired

16. Canonicity
Apocrypha: Catholics have them, why not us?
Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch were
written around 150 BC.
•Not found in the Hebrew Old Testament
•Jesus never quotes from them.
•New Testament never quotes from them as being
Scripture.
•Ancient Hebrew Jews never considered them as
Scripture.

17. 25,000 Ancient NT Manuscripts

18. Early Translations
There were many attempts to translate the
Bible into the vernacular tongue, such as
Wycliffe's Bible in English. Most of these
were subsequently burned by the Roman
Catholic Church and never made it into
the hands of the people. The Church also
burned Martin Luther's Bible, shown left.
But copies survive, even until today,
because of a particularly important
invention.