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The New Testament
The New Testament
Divine Inspiration
Signifies the origin of the Bible
All scriptures are inspired by God and is useful for
teaching (2 Tm 3:16)
God so moved the inspired writers by His
supernatural operation that he incited them to write,
and assisted them in their writing so that they
correctly conceived, accurately wrote down and
truthfully expressed all that He intended and only
what He intended; and only thus can God be the
author of the Bible
Divine Inspiration
Two Elements:
1. God is actively present in a unique
manner in the composition of the
biblical books.
(cf. 2 Tim 3: 13-17; 1 Pt. 1:20-21)
2. The freedom of the human authors
in making use of their own talents,
and resources in cooperation with
the Spirit of God
( Lk. 1:1-4, Jer. 36: 17-18)
Inerrancy
Basic principles:
1. The words of the Bible are true only in the
sense in which human authemhors
conveyed them. Therefore we must
determine how they thought,what
influenced them etc.
2. The human author was not necessarily
without error. But Inerrancy means that
the authors opinion, and convictions did
not affect the message
Development of OT canon
621 BC Finding of Deuteronomic code in the
temple
400 BC The Pentateuch is published as the
Torah or Law and later accepted as the
word of God written.
200 BC prophetic writings become part of the OT .
After 70 AD - Two Jewish canons were formed
1. Palestinian canon (Jamnia by Johanan
ben Zakkai) accepted 39 books
2. Alexandrian canon accepted 46 books
Catholic OT canon
Other Christians follow the Palestinian canon
Catholics follow the Alexandrian canon
which includes 1& 2 Maccabees, Tobit,
Judith, Sirach, Wisdom, and Baruch and
some additional parts of Esther and Daniel.
These books are called Deutero-canonical
books in the Catholic tradition while other
Christians regarded these books as
apocryphal writings
Earliest OT Writings
The song of Miriam in Exodus 15. It is
dated at the time of exodus from
Egypt in 1280 BC
Development of NT canon
30-40 AD collection of Jesus sayings now
called Q Quelle in German i.e. source
50 -51AD - 1 &2 Thessalonians
54-59 AD Doctrinal Letters of Paul:
1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians and Romans
- Pastoral Letters: 1&2 Timothy, Titus
- Captivity letters: Philemon, Eph, Col,
Phil
1.Matthew 2.Mark
3.Luke
4.John
-
28
16
24
21
Historical Writing
6.
7.
8.
9.
Romans
- 16
1Corinthians- 16
2 Corinthians -13
Galatians
- 6
10.
11.
12.
13.
Ephesians - 6
Philippians- 4
Colossians- 4
Philemon - 1
14. 1 Timothy
15. 2 Timothy
16. Titus
-6
-4
-3
Earliest Writings
17. I Thessalonians
-5
18. 2Thessalonians
-3
Apocalyptic Writing
27. Revelation - 22