The Bible as the Word of God
The Bible as a Text
The Central Theme and Purpose
Interpreting the Bible
Geography
100
The Bible.
What is the written Word of God.
100
Context
What is information needed to understand what is being communicated.
100
The Glory of God
What is God’s infinite value?
100
Historical Meaning
What is the intent or purpose of the original author to the original recipients
100
The river that makes Egypt fertile.
What is the Nile.
200
Revelation
What is the truth or knowledge revealed by God.
200
Genre
What is a type or class of literature?
200
The reason God provides salvation.
What is he loves us.
200
Theology
What is the universal truth that the Historical Meaning reveals about God, humanity, and the world.
200
The river that makes Canaan fertile.
What is rain.
300
The four things the Bible reveals.
What is Who God is, What god has done, Who we are, How we should respond.
300
Historical Context
What is the history and what life was like when the Bible was written.
300
The parts of the Bible that are about Jesus
What is all of them
300
Contemporary Significance
What is the effect the Historical Meaning and Theology have on how people live their lives in the contemporary world
300
Mesopotamia
What is the land between the rivers.
400
Inerrancy
What is the Bible has no errors of mistakes.
400
Big Story Context
What is where the individual story takes place in the big story of the Bible
400
The central purpose of the Bible
What is to point us to the person and work of Jesus Christ
400
Application
What is when people actually do what the Contemporary Significance says.
400
The river that makes Mesopotamia fertile.
What is irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates.
500
The knowledge revealed through Creation.
What is General Revelation?
500
One of the countries that we should know the history and culture of.
What is Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Rome, and ancient Israel
500
The central theme of the Bible
What is the glory of God in the salvation of his people through judgment.
500
How to find the Theology
What is ask Who God is, What God has done, Who we are, and How we should respond.
500
The meaning of Trans-Jordan
What is beyond the Jordan.