32 | Understanding The Bible I

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Do you relate to the Bible primarily as an orientation to right and wrong or as the story of God pursuing man? Are you willing to wrestle with it?

For the first episode in our arc on Understanding The Bible, we dive straight into the history of the text itself. If you are a lover of some good ol' historical context, this episode is for you!

We discuss Jesus's own relationship with scripture; how our understanding and idea of what the bible is has shaped our spiritual development; God's willingness to get on the level of his people and help those to seek to understand; and a musical rendition of all 66 books in the Christian Bible? Stay tuned. 

Matthew 3:17: And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."

Matthew 4:1-11

Psalm 91

Deuteronomy 6-8

Mason: a builder and worker in stone.

Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. Biblical Apocrapha is a set of texts included in the Latin Vulgate and Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible. While Catholic tradition considers some of these texts to be deutercanononical , Protestants consider them apocryphal. Thus, Protestant bibles do not include the books within the Old Testament but have often included them in a separate section.

Click here to read Bel and the Dragon

Click here to read The Maccabees

Click here for David Dungan, Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament

Romans 1

Psalms 19 : The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

Matthew 13:58:  And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith

Matthew 22:32: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

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