The Bible
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- The Bible
- Source of authority, Book, word of God, Old Testament, New Testament, 66 Books
- Revealed Theology - reading the book, God spoke to people, he revealed it to them.
- Strengths - St Paul's road to Damascus, Supported by St Teresa of Alivia. Pseudo Dionysius - Meditations, paranormal visions - God reveals.
- Weaknesses - requires natural theology to support and prove the authenticity of Bible
- Revealed Theology - reading the book, God spoke to people, he revealed it to them.
- Three approaches to interpreting the Bible
- Liberal - Bible is not to be take literally. Stories are just stories, they are metaphors. Miracles are myths and metaphors.
- Conservative: there is truth in all parts of Bible. Bible is inspired by God but written by humans so open to interpretation. Everything in Bible is there for a reason.
- Fundamental - What Bible says has happened, there are no inaccuracies in the Bible, its 100% the word of God.
- Noah and the Ark Genesis 6-9:1-17
- Fundamental - God killed all humans, Noah was 600 years old. Flooded the world. For the fundamentals, all of that happened. Strengths - everything is possible with God - God's power. God is in charge and in control. Weaknesses- far fetched, takes away human freedom, God seems harsh.
- Conservative - there was a flood over a small place. Some animals, small boat. Noah and his family survived. Strengths - more realistic, possible, God at centre, covenant, he will never do it again. Weaknesses - limit's God's power, inconsistent, unauthentic, needs a lot of interpretation.
- Liberal - nothing - metaphor of God's punishment. There might be a flood many yhears ago at some point. Strengths - God can punish, God won't punish that badly, follow God and teaches morals. Weaknesses - diminishes God's power, free will? reads as though it happened, doesn't seem like a story.
- Biblical Criticism - 16th century reformation.
- Martin Luther - wanted everyone to read the scripture themselves. John Calvin - looked at the Bible as the 'whole word of God'.
- Natural Theology - see God in use, seen and experienced by people. Aquinas 5 way existence, William Paley and Paley's watch supports this argument.
- Propositional - direct God, Moses and 10 commandments.Problems with Propositional, humans have copied text by divine dictation - Henry Morris.
- Another problem with Moses is that it is eternal, nonphysical transcendent being that exists outside temporal universe. How can Moses have free will.
- Non-Propositional -non-directly by God, looking at the world. Problems with non-propositional - God has revealed himself to the writers via religious experiences. Friedrich Schleimacher believed Biblical texts came about as people reflected on their religious experiences. Swinburne and William James also believe scriptures are inspired by God.
- However natural theology is also critiqued by Hume who argues Paley made an inductive leap and watch is too imperfect to be compared with a perfect world.
- Propositional - direct God, Moses and 10 commandments.Problems with Propositional, humans have copied text by divine dictation - Henry Morris.
- Moral Law - to do what is intrinsically right or wrong. Ceremonial law is relevant to people of Israel to protect them and set them apart from other nations.
- Thomas Aquinas - moral precepts - permanent, part of law and nature. Ceremonial precepts - deals with worshipping God. Judicial precepts - keeps order in society.
- Source of authority, Book, word of God, Old Testament, New Testament, 66 Books
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