Unit 1 Religion Review

Scripture is the inspired word of God

The Christian scriptures consist of two major parts

A rationalist would agree that Noah's Ark was build by Noah and filled with 2 of each animal.

Why is scripture important?

The authors of the Bible...

Which theory suggests that all the stories in the Bible are historically accurate.

God was the inspiration for the Bible only in the sense that its human authors were thinking of him as they wrote.

An understanding of what the text would have meant in its original cultural, historical, and linguistic context is

Some biblical stories are historical, others are fictitious. To determine which is which one must know the genre/ time.

Which lens does the Catholic church interperate scripture?

What is scripture?

An analysis of the text according to the rules of reason and/or science.

Someone who says that all of the stories in the bible are entirely accurate accounts of historical events is a