WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY-ABOUT ANYTHING

II Timothy 3:15-17and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

Psalm 119:11; 105

I treasure your word in my heart, so that I may not sin against you. . Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Talmud Babli. Order Mo'ed. Tractate Eruvin [Eruvin]

Pesaro: Gershom b. Moses Soncino, 1510? (1515?).

St. Paul

Rabbi Paul

Deut. 30:11• 11 "For this commandment which

I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 14 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

Rom. 10:5-10• 5 Moses writes that the man who

practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it. 6 But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach); 9 because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.

The Second Century

Marcion b. 110

ST. IRENAEUS(ca. 140-200)

8. True knowledge is [that which consists in] the doctrine of the apostles, and the ancient constitution of the Church throughout all the world, and the distinctive manifestation of the body of Christ according to the successions of the bishops, by which they have handed down that Church which exists in every place, and has come even unto us, being guarded and preserved without any forging of Scriptures, by a very complete system of doctrine, and neither receiving addition nor [suffering] curtailment [in the truths which she believes]; and [it consists in] reading [the word of God] without falsification, and a lawful and diligent exposition in harmony with the Scriptures, both without danger and without blasphemy; and [above all, it consists in] the pre-eminent gift of love, 2 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 13 which is more precious than knowledge, more glorious than prophecy, and which excels all the other gifts [of God].

EARLY LISTS OF NT BOOKS

• THE MURATORIAN CANON (LATE 2ND)• (Matthew, Mark) Luke and John• Acts, Corinthians (2), Ephesians, Colossians,

Galatians, Thessalonians (2), Romans; Philemon, Titus, Timothy (2)

• Jude, I & II John• Wisdom of Solomon; Sheherd of Hermas• Apocalypses of John & Peter

Muratorian concerns

• Inspiration• Apostolicity• Usefulness and acceptance of Churches

 “If it seems to anyone that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, in such a way that by that understanding he does not build up 

that double love of God and neighbor, he has not yet understood”

How to read THIS

1. Timely vs. Timeless

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If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.*

I Corinthians 14.35

2. Holy Spirit

John 14.26:But the Advocate,* the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.

3. Incarnation principle-Word of Man-Word of God

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

4. Spirit vs. Letter

Mark 2.27:Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath;

For some years now, I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was

and what it meant

John Cassian Conf. XIV.8

And so these four previously mentioned figures coalesce, if we desire, in one subject, so that one and the same Jerusalem can be taken in four senses: historically as the city of the Jews; allegorically as Church of Christ, anagogically as the heavenly city of God which is the mother of us all, tropologically, as the soul of man, which is frequently subject to praise or blame from the Lord under this title.

Vincent of Lerins

Therefore, it is very necessary, on account of so great intricacies of such various error, that the rule for the right understanding of the prophets and apostles should be framed in accordance with the standard of Ecclesiastical and Catholic interpretation.