UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS

Tuguegarao City

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS and SCIENCES

First Semester
A.Y. 2021-2022

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

CFED 1013- God’s Journey with His People

Prepared by:

MR. MICHAEL ANGELO AGUDO

MISS THELMA BARICAUA, MARS
MISS SARAH MARIE IBAY
MISS MICA TALAY
MRS. ESPERANZA ZABLAN
MISS CHARISSA ZALUN

Reviewed by:

WILSON TEMPORAL, LPT, MST

CFED DEPARTMENT HEAD

Recommended by:

VENUS I. GUYOS, Ph.D.

Academic Dean

Approved by:

EMMANUEL JAMES PATTAGUAN, Ph.D.

Vice President for Academics

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 School of Education, Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy and Religious Instruction
Curriculum 2021-2022

This Week’s Time Table: (August 23-28, 2021)

For this week, the following shall be your guide for the different lessons and tasks that you need to accomplish.
Be patient, read them carefully before proceeding to the tasks expected of you.
HAVE A FRUITFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Date Topics Activities or Tasks

August 23-24 Introduction to Sacred Scriptures Read lessons
Bible Accomplish an assessment after every
lesson.
August 25-26 Biblical Inspiration Read lessons
Accomplish an assessment after every
lesson.
August 27 Submission of Learning Tasks Submit all assessments previously given.
August 28 Quiz Accomplish the Evaluation portion

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

CFED 1013 (God’s Journey with His People)

Lesson 2: The Bible and its Background

Topic: Introduction to Sacred Scriptures, Biblical Inspiration, Canon of the Bible,

Interpretation of the Biblical Text

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. Explain the necessary processes and discernment in the compilation of
the so-called Bible;
2. Elucidate the meaning of Biblical inspiration, canonicity and
interpretation;
3. Differentiate exegesis with eisegesis as Biblical analysis using the
sample interpretations provided;
4. Accomplish a worksheet to enumerate the different communication filters;
5. Appreciate the value of interpreting the Bible accurately.

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 LEARNING CONTENT

THE FORMATION OF THE BIBLE

The Bible did not come out as a book/compiled from the beginning. The process was God’s revelation to people,
oral tradition by which the people preached and passed it to the next generations, and the writing stage. The whole Bible
was written over a period of more than 1000 years. From about 1000 BC (OT) to about 100 AD (NT).

The call of Abraham (Gen 12:1-3) marked the very beginning of God’s historical
intervention in the lives of humans to bring them back to His fold, since they have been
going astray. This was the actual start of God’s mission of bringing Salvation (total well-
being, true meaning of life) to humanity. God made a covenant with Abraham (Gen. 17:7-8)
which will be followed up by the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham being formed into
one nation who will live the covenant and statutes of God.

The Call of Abraham

The Exodus and the Covenant at Mt. Sinai
This event speaks about God’s direct intervention in liberating the
Israelites from their slavery in Egypt through Moses and the giving of
the Decalogue or 10 Commandments at Mt. Sinai. The 10
Commandments made God’s intention clearer, to free or to save people
from going astray using the Israelites, His chosen people as starting
point.
With the Kingship of David, the kingdom of Israel was finally established. This was
the most prosperous and peaceful time for the Israelites. So, David became the
model king for the Israelites. This was made possible because of his faithfulness to
God. Despite the exemplary kingship of David, the succeeding kings failed to emulate
The Establishment of or even just to sustain, it led to the unfaithfulness of the Israelites. This
the Kingdom unfaithfulness came in the form of idolatry or believing and worshipping other gods,
and even oppressing their poor co-Israelites. God will again intervene by sending the
prophets to remind them
their covenant with God which they should be faithful to. The prophets will only write their messages usually at their old
age if not, by their “disciples.” Despite the coming out of the prophets the situation even became worst which will lead to
their exile.

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 With the unfaithfulness of the Israelites, God allowed them to be conquered by
other countries until their exile in Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. The THE BABYLONIAN EXILE
Babylonians burned Jerusalem and the temple and exiled all the rich and proud
Israelites in Babylon and made them their slaves. This experience in Babylonian
exile made the Israelites realize their unfaithfulness and their being unjust to the
poor and decided to remorse and return back to God. This was the time that
they wrote some of their concept about God such as the Creation Story and
others which was usually passed orally. So, they started to worship God in
small groups in small places which will be called Synagogue by praying and
studying the Torah (commandments).
King Cyrus of Persia defeated Babylon and freed the Israelites and later allowed them to go back to Israel in 538
BC with the guidance of the prophets Ezra and Nehemiah. Later when there will be no more prophets, Israel tried
to look for other guidance for a meaningful life and so this was the time they have written their wisdom books.

Jesus is the perfect embodiment of God’s mission. The same process with that of the
Old Testament, that there was Jesus who personally worked for the kingdom, later the
apostles will continue Jesus’ mission by preaching (oral tradition) and at their old age
will be the writing. The evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) wrote their gospels
at the second half of the 1st century A.D (50-100 AD) which was the stage of the early
Church. Aside from the Gospels, the other books of the New Testament such as the
Pauline letters and other Epistles were written at this era and even later.
The Catholic Church (recall the evolution of the Church from The Way to
Becoming One Holy Catholic and Apostolic in week 1 topic) started to compile all
the books which they believe to be inspired by the Holy Spirit from the time of
Prophets until after the Jesus’ event which they will call BIBLE. The compiled
books of the Bible since 360 AD were all 73. 46 books of the Old Testament
which includes the 7 Deutero-canonical and 27 books of the New Testament. The Church carefully discerned the
canon/books of the sacred scriptures. It was Tertulian (200 AD) who introduced the “Old Testament” for the
Jewish/Israelites Scriptures and “New Testament” for the Christian Scriptures. (From the very beginning there were no
protestant churches yet since they started emerging in the 16 th century and they will later follow the Canon of the Israelites
who did not accept the Seven Deutero-canonical books as inspired by the Holy Spirit.)

The Israelites who did not acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah and stick to their Old Testament beliefs and
practices called their religion Judaism in 70 A.D. They only finalized the compilation/canon of their sacred scriptures (which
were Old Testament books) around 930-1009 AD. They called their canon of Sacred Scriptures TaNaK which stands for
Torah (Law/Pentateuch), Nevi’im (Prophets/Prophetic books), Ketuvi’m (Writings/wisdom books). The TaNaK is composed
of 24 books. In their counting it is 24 but if you count their books individually it is actually 39. They only have 39 books since
they did not include the 7 Deutero-canonical books. This counting of the books of the Old Testament will be the basis of the
Protestants (who only emerged in the 16th century) when they had their version of the Bible.

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 BIBLE
,
The word bible is derived from the Latin biblia a singular word derived
from the Greek word biblia, meaning “books”. The Greek word biblion,
which means “book” or “roll” is derived from Byblos, because the
collection of written materials was made of papyrus, the Greeks called it
biblia. Eventually, the plural form biblia was used by Latin-speaking
Christians to denote all the books of the Old and New Testaments.

HOLY WRIT HOLY SCRIPTURES

The bible is also called Holy Scriptures
“Writ” literally means something that is which was taken from the Latin scriptus,
written, the Bible is also called Holy Writ meaning “written” and Greek graphe,
because it contains salvation history that Hebrew (mikra), the word refers to
started with the call of Abraham and climaxed religious writings that are considered
with Jesus’ Paschal Mystery. authoritative, foundational, and/or sacred
by some religious groups.
The Greek term used is logos, which means
“a word as embodying a concept or This name is used in Rom. 3:2 and Acts 7:38
discourse.” It is also used of the “revelation of where it is translated as oracles. For Christians,
God’s word.” the whole Bible can be called “The Oracles of
The Jews call their THE WORD OF GOD God because it contains God’s divine utterance
for humanity.
Scriptures as Torah or
Law, because the
THE ORACLES OF GOD
whole of the Old This name looks at the Old Testament
Testament is from the perspective of its divisions (which will
authoritative as God’s be discussed to you as we move towards
Word of instructions to learning) -the law, the prophets and the
writings.
THE LAW & THE PROPHETS
humanity on how to live
well as human beings.

THE LAW (TORAH)

BIBLICAL INSPIRATION
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INERRANCY OF THE BIBLE
Since the Bible is not a scientific book, not
even a pure historical one, there might be errors in it
such as; spelling, grammar, structure and worldview,
but in terms of its salvific message which is the truth
about our salvation it has no error. Why? Because it
is inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Except for the Deutero-canonical books
whose original manuscripts did not
survive, all the Old Testament scrolls
were originally written in Hebrew which is
one of the ancient languages of the
Israelites. The New Testament books
were all written in Greek.
LANGUAGES OF THE
SACRED SCRIPTURES

PARTICIPATION

Welcome to the reflection area!

We not only meet Jesus in the Sacrament of the Eucharist but we also meet Him in the Liturgy of the Word.
God will always tell us what is good, true, and loving to help us, sometimes in His words in the bible and
sometimes in our hearts. But we need to get used to listening so we can hear God clearly. We pray that these
exercises in reflecting on the Word of the Lord will help you to grow and experience His love and guidance.
God bless you! :)
Name: Score:

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Course/Year: Date:

GOSPEL REFLECTION SHEET

Religious Affiliation:
Gospel Reading: (e.g John 15:1-11)
Striking line/statement (from the Gospel):

(IN NOT MORE THAN 10 SENTENCES)

EVALUATION

Directions: Identify which USL’s Core Value is being exemplified in each of the following situations.

A. Christian Living C. Professional Responsibility/ Innovation, Creativity and Agility

B. Excellence D. Social Awareness

1. Committing oneself to efficiently and responsibly apply the learned principles from our school.
2. Witnessing the Gospel values taught and lived by Christ.
3. Engaging ourselves in the promotion of justice, peace and integrity of creation.
4. Keeping ourselves responsive to the changing needs of our stakeholders.
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5. USL is flexible and solution-oriented.
6. Kim often saves little amount of money from his weekly allowance to donate for the mission.
7. Louisian students are making names in the national as well as the international arena.
8. Supporting the mission collection drive of the USL out of genuine love for God and the CICM’s mission.
9. USL is one of the best if not the best private school in Region 02 in terms of academic programs.
10. Louisians must internalize and witness the value of love and compassion in their daily living.

FREEFORM: Answer briefly the following questions:

11. Who was the first to compile the books of the Sacred Scriptures?
12. Who guided those who compiled the Sacred Scriptures?
13. How should we understand the Bible as free from error?

Name: Score:
Course/Year: Date:
USL’S VISION - MISSION - CORE VALUES

Directions: Identify which USL’s Core Value is being exemplified in each of the following situations given in the module.
Write the CAPITAL LETTER of your answer on the space provided.
A. Christian Living C. Professional Responsibility/ Innovation, Creativity and Agility
B. Excellence D. Social Awareness

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

FREEFORM

11

12

13

REFERENCES

Textbooks

Morgan, G. C. (1912). Living messages of the books of the Bible: Old and New Testments. New York: Fleming
H. Revell.

YOUCAT english: Youth cathecism of the Catholic Church. (2011). San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

Becoming a Household of God in the Old Testament (150 years of CICM in the Philippines) by CICM
Philippines

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Online Reference

Fairchild, M. (n.d.). The Seven Days of Creation: What Happened on Each Day? Retrieved August 11, 2020,
from https://www.learnreligions.com/the-creation-story-700209

Learning Materials

1. Worksheets (teacher-made)
2. PowerPoint (teacher-made)

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