What is not relevant for guiding Catholics in interpreting the Bible?

Paying attention to the page numbers

Why is 7 important for ancient Hebrews?

It was a number associated with the temple and religion

Why do Jews and Christians trust the Bible?

We believe God inspired the authors to write what he wanted

The effort to find truths about the world through reason

The Ancient Hebrew writing in the Bible tends to be

more poetic and metaphorical than modern American writing

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Theology 10 Chapter 1 Review: God, Scripture, Creation

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God makes everything in the universe
By his words
Out of dust and ashes
out of necessity
because of boredom
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Man is created in Genesis 1
out of the rib of Woman
out of the formless waters
in God's image and likeness
right before the land animals are created
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What is not relevant for guiding Catholics in interpreting the Bible?
Paying attention to details and literary cues
Paying attention to the page numbers
Studying language, culture, and genres of Biblical times
the teachings of the Popes, councils, bishops and doctors
4
Hebrews did not think or believe this about God
God came to be in time
all of the above
There are many gods
God is the same as the world
5
The underlying structure of the six days of Creation is
giving form and then filling
meant to be taken as 144 hours of construction time
days of making and then of unmaking
naming animals
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Why is 7 important for ancient Hebrews?
It was a number associated with the temple and religion
Because 7 is the first prime number
It was the number of kings of Israel
They had developed mathematics to amazing heights
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What is a literary genre?
a way of understanding Scripture
writing in a certain language
a kind or category of writing
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Why do Jews and Christians trust the Bible?
We believe God inspired the authors to write what he wanted
What it teaches is self-evident
It's been around for thousands of years
We believe it's authors were all brilliant
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What is philosophy?
Divine revelation
Fun stories about the world
The effort to find truths about the world through reason
Poetry
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The Ancient Hebrew writing in the Bible tends to be
focused on proving things through experiments and statistics
in the Greek language
more poetic and metaphorical than modern American writing
abstract and philosophical

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