Mending Our Relationship with Scripture

Now that we have talked about our mending our relationship with God one way that we can continue to mend this relationship is by the way that we look at scripture

Going back to Acts 9 with Saul

He would have had to majorly change the way that we saw the Bible with Jesus being the messiah

It is not a matter of if Paul new the Bible

He probably would have seen that the messiah was supposed to save them from Rome

People today misrepresent scripture and misunderstand it because they have not mended the way that they think about scripture

The majority of this comes from people not paying attention to context. But we all know that context is important

Trunk, Trunk, and trunk in English. Use Vietnamese example

So with this I want to hopefully help you understand some of the context of the Bible so we can understand it correctly

Books and Authorship

What Makes Up The Bible?

Many different kinds of literature that have to be read differently

Language

How Was The Bible Put Together?

New Testament Criteria

Apostolic Origin

Doctrinal Alignment

Widespread acceptance

inspiration

The Processes

Wasn’t just a one time thing to decide

It took them many years and it was actually solidified in about 400 AD

How is the Bible Different?

Bible

over 5,800 manuscripts

There are variants but this actually proves the validity of the Bible

99% of the variants don’t even impact the meaning

Scholars say that the Bible is 99.5% accurate

Over 300 prophecies were fulfilled

The Book of Mormon

Wrote by one guy

he wrote it lost it and wrote it again and it was different

The Quran

It is accurate but there is pretty much one copy and only one person wrote it

They had a cleansing in 650 AD where they made on standard copy and burned the rest

First Level Interpretation and Translations

rock, horse, kick

Questions to Ask When Reading The Bible?

Leviticus 19:28 NIV

28 “ ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.