Agenda
1. A test drive
2. How did the Bible come into being?
3. Overview of the Bible
4. The First process of the Bible GPS is Understanding.
5. The Second process of the Bible GPS is Application.
The Third process of the Bible GPS is Communication.
6. The Bible GPS on Galatians 5: 16-26
7. The Bible GPS on Ephesians 5: 8-20
8. The Bible GPS on Romans 3: 21-26
How THE BIBLE came into being. (Schematic)
Traditions
Languages
Oral
Written
Hebrew
±1000BC
Aramaic
±400BC
Greek
±90AD
Jamnia
Councils
Empires
(Jewish Council)
±90AD
OT Canon without
Apocrypha
Assyrian
Latin
(Vulgate -255)
397AD
Carthage
±397AD
NT Canon
(Early Church
accepts the
decisions of Jamnia
& Carthage)
Greek
Babylonian
(Alexander the
Great)
±1546 AD
Roman
English King James
±1611 AD
Trent
±1546AD
(Located in Northern
Italy) Roman Catholics
officially defined the
Catholic Canon which
include the Apocrypha)
How THE BIBLE came into being.
A Process
1. Genuine.
2. Authenticity.
3. Divine authority and
inspiration.
Apocrypha
Canon
How THE BIBLE came into being.
A Process
The Jews
The Roman
Catholic Church
The Protestants
How THE BIBLE came into being.
1. The Traditions
TALK
TALK
Oral
Written
How THE BIBLE came into being.
2. The Languages
Hebrew
Greek
Latin
English
How THE BIBLE came into being.
3. The Councils
Council of Jamnia ±AD 90
Council of Carthage
±AD 397
Council of Trent
±AD 1546
Apocrypha/
Deuterocanon
How THE BIBLE came into being.
4. The Empires
Persian
Greek
Babylonian
Roman
Assyrian
How THE BIBLE came into being.
End remarks
Bible means “books”
Dead Sea Scrolls
Manuscripts
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
How THE BIBLE came into being.
End remarks
New Testament
Old Testament
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TOTAL = 66
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