Outline:

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Outline

• 1). What is the Bible?
• 2). Who wrote the Bible?
• 3). Genealogy
• 4). Camping/Story telling

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What is the Bible?

• A collection of ancient writings about God.
• Bible is Greek ('biblia') meaning 'Books'.

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What is the Bible?

• Old New Testaments or Hebrew Christian
  Scriptures.
• Testament agreement Scriptures sacred
  writings.

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What is the Bible?

• Hebrew stories are about the agreement
  (covenant) with God and the Hebrew people.

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What is the Bible?

• Christian stories teachings of covenant with
  Jesus all people who believe accept
  forgiveness of sins.

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The Bible is

• Hebrew belief in a loving, caring God different
  from the chaotic, warring, immoral gods of other
  religions (Marduk).

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Marduk When on high the heavens had not been
named, Firm ground below had not been called by
name,
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Naught by primordial Apsu, their begetter, (And)
Mummu-Tiamat, she who bore them all,
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Their waters commingling as a single body. From
this union of primeval waters all other gods
spring.
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They fought against each other. They killed
their parents. Marduk makes heaven earth out
of each half his mother's body.
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Blood I will mass and cause bones to be. I will
establish a savage, 'man' shall be his name.
Verily, savage-man I will create.
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He shall be charged with the service of the gods
That they might be at ease! (ANET 68)
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God Let us make man in our own image, in the
likeness of ourselves,
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And let them be masters of the fish of the
sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the
wild beasts and all the reptiles upon the earth.
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God created man in the image of himself, in the
image of God he created him, male and female he
created them.
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And so it was. God saw all he had made and indeed
it was very good. (Genesis 126-31)
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Who wrote the Bible?

• People of God about their experiences with God.
• Written to the People of God (Farmers, Shepherds
  Nomads).

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Who wrote the Bible?

• Written by many authors over 1400 years.
• Final Hebrew collection, writing done during
  Babylonian exile by the religious
  scholars/scribes.

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Who wrote the Bible?

• Final Hebrew Canon accepted 1st Century AD.
• Final Christian Cannon accepted 3rd Century AD.

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Genealogy

• Story of where we came from. Who we are. Why we
  are the way we are (culture, nationality,
  religion).

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Genealogy

• Stories have special meaning for us. Our Special
  History.
• Bible is the special History for the Hebrews as
  well as all Humanity.

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Genealogy

• Our Special History of Salvation.
• It tells about our special relationship with
  God.
• Who we are, Why we are, What is our purpose

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Camping

• At night, around the campfire, we share our
  stories.
• Stories are about an event that happened in the
  past.

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Camping

• Stories are shared with family friends (Oral).
• Stories are reflected upon and embellished in
  order teach, edify, help. Stories are always
  accurate.

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Camping

• Important stories are eventually written down.
• Stories are the reflection by the community of
  its special experience of God in their lives.