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[[Image:Biblewithlight.jpg|thumb|An open The '''Bible.]]''Synopsis:'' The Bible is the collection of documents acknowledged by Christians to be inspired by God. The Protestant Bible contains 66 books (Catholic and Orthodox contain 73, while the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible recognizes the most books: 81 in total) and is divided into the [[Old Testament]] and the [[New Testament]]. It tells of the story of the [[creation]] of the universe and [[man]] by [[God]], the rebellion of man against God and his rescue plan for humanity through his Son, [[Jesus Christ]].

----{{dictionary}}__TOC__{{topics}}* [[Books of the Bible Index]] | [[Old Testament]] | [[New Testament]]* [[The word Bible Commentary Index]] - [[Matthew Henry Commentary on comes from the Whole Bible]]* [[Bible Terms Index]] | [[Bible Dictionaries Index]] | [[Easton's Bible Dictionary]]* [[Hebrew]] | [[Koine Greek]]* [[Formation and translation of the Bible]] | [[Distribution of the Bible]]* [[Timeline of Biblical History]] | [[Historical accuracy of the Bible]] | word for book, [[Biblical criticism]]* [[Biblical inerrancy]] | [[Sola Scriptura]]* [[Characters of the Bible]]* [[Bible scientific foreknowledge]]* [[The Bible in 50 wordsbiblion]].

The Bible is divided up into two main sections - the [[Old Testament]] and the [[Bible (EBD)|Easton's Bible Dictionary entry on New Testament]]. Before 1804, practically all protestant Bibles were divided into three main section - with the additional section being between the Old and New testament: the Bible[[Apocrypha]]. By the mid 1820s, a vast majority of protestant Bibles did not include the apocrypha due to controversies surrounding them as well as to make a Bible cheaper to produce.

====[[Scripture (EBD)|Easton's Bible Dictionary entry on ScriptureOld Testament]]====

==Main article=={{bible}}The Bible is Old Testament tells the collection story of documents acknowledged by Christians to be inspired by ancient Israel and God's intervention in their history. It contains 66 books and is divided into There are three main sections that make up the [[Old Testament]] - The Books of the Law, History and Poetry, and the [[New Testament]]Books of the Prophets. It tells The books of the Law tell the very early story of the [[creation]] history of Israel and lay out the covenant or agreement between God and his people with their laws for living. The books of history and poetry continue the story of the universe people of Israel starting with their invasion into Canaan and ending with their kingdom splitting into two and [[man]] by [[God]], being conquered and exiled. The books of the rebellion prophets describe some of man against God the visions and his rescue plan words of the prophets who continually called the people to account for humanity through his Son, [[Jesus Christ]]their abandonment of God.

===The New Testament tells the story of Jesus and the early church. The New Testament contains different categories as well including the [[Old Gospels]] which describe the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus, and the book of Acts which tells the story of the formation of the early church. The New Testamentalso contains a number of letters or [[epistles]]===to various early Christian communities. It finishes with the Book of Revelation which is apocalyptic prophecy that paints a picture of the final victory of Christ, calling on his followers to persevere despite persecution.

Three sections make up the Old Testament ====Extra- The Books of the Law, History and Poetry, and the Books of the Prophets. The Old Testament is a Christian term for the original Hebrew Bible which is known as the Tanak (which is an acronym for what the OT contains Law, Prophets, and Writings). The Old Testament sets the stage for what happens in the New Testament it provides the rules, the nature of God, the promise of GOD which are fulfilled further in the New Testament.Biblical texts - [[Apocrypha]]====

====A number of books are not considered to be part of the Bible by Protestant Christians, but are by other denominations - these books are referred to as [[Apocrypha|apocryphal literature]]. Although not considered canon by Protestants, generally they are not regarded as [[Heresy|heretical]] either (although there are exceptions). The reasons some of the apocryphal books were omitted from the original Hebrew Bible used by the Jews, was due to their original language not using the Hebrew Script (as Hebrew and Aramaic does). The [[Books of the LawMaccabees]]====was written in Greek so it was regarded as divinely inspired but not scripture.

The first 5 books of Protestants generally point to the Bible fact that [[GenesisJesus Christ]], [[Exodus]], [[Leviticus]], [[Numbers]], [[Deuteronomy]]. These five did not approve of the 46 canonical books tell us of [[Creation]], [[used in the Fall]]Old Testament, neither did He ever quote from the emergence of the children additional 7 apocryphal books. Catholic and Orthodox Christians place less value on Scripture and instead Tradition which is why this fact doesn't seemingly bother either of [[Israel]] and the legal codes that God gave themthose Christian branches.

Three law codes that are relevant to Christians are ====Formation of the Bible / [[Ten CommandmentsBiblical Canon]], Shema (Love the LORD your God with all your heart), and Love thy next door neighbor.====

The Prophets take up dispute over the Old Testament would wage on for over a large body millennia and the Catholic Church agreed at the end of spacethe [[Council of Trent]] in 1563 that the Old Testament would be comprised of 46 books with some books being added onto. They range from The books officially added included the following: [[Book of IsaiahTobit|Tobit]] and the , [[Book of JeremiahJudith|Judith]], [[First book of Maccabees|1 Maccabees]] who are classified as the major prophets to , [[Second book of Maccabees|2 Maccabees]], [[Book Wisdom of HoseaSolomon|HoseaWisdom]], [[Book of JoelSirach|JoelSirach]], and [[Book of JonahBaruch|JonahBaruch]] who ; and the books altered are minor prophets. Prophets were divinely appointed spokesman for God. The [[HebrewBook of Esther|Esther]] ([[Additions to Esther|additions]] word for prophet 'nabi' means spokesman. They preached about the corruption ) and [[Book of Israel, God's judgement and His future restorationDaniel|Daniel]] ([[Additions to Daniel|additions]]). One vital cornerstone that has bearing for us would be the coming of The controversial decision at Trent was brought upon due to the [[MessiahProtestant Reformation]]. This is mentioned in , which created [[Isaiah 53Protestantism]] in . All branches of Protestantism don't recognize the decision that was made during the major prophets and last chapters Council of Zechariah in the minorTrent.

====History and poetry=[[Translating the Bible]]===

Writings range from The original languages of the historical such as [[Book various books of Joshua|Joshua]], the Samuels, Chronicles, or Kings to poetry such as Bible were [[Song of Solomon]], or [[Psalms]] and wisdom such as [[Book of JobBiblical Hebrew|Job]], [[EcclesiastesHebrew]], (for Old Testament books) and [[ProverbsKoine Greek]](for New Testament books). They describe the nature A small amount of God such as [[Psalm 23]], the wisdom of God and man's reaction such as in [[Job]], or the History book of Israel and God's involvement such as establishing [[King DavidDaniel]] and his legacy which led to was originally written in [[Jesus ChristAramaic]] his most famous descendant of all.

===In the first few centuries after Christ the Bible was translated into a few other ancient languages (for example [[New TestamentLatin]]===) but it wasn't until the Protestant [[Reformation]] that widespread translation of the Bible into many languages (such as German and English) really began to occur.

The New Testament contains different categories as wellIn recent years there has been lots of activity in translating the Bible into many of the minor languages of the world.

====Gospel=[[Interpreting the Bible]]===

[[Gospel]] is the Old German word god-spielen (good speak) the original [[Greek]] word was [[Evangel]]. Gospel means Good News. The Good News was that [[Jesus]] had arrived and was the Messiah that would fulfill the Old Testament, as Jesus himself declared Interpretation of his death and resurrection, "As written in the Law, Prophets, and Psalms." There are Four Gospels - [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]], [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], and [[Gospel of John|John]]. Mark Bible is the oldest Gospel and the most barebones of all the Gospels, he wrote in AD 60 and served as a secretary for Petercomplex issue. After PeterHow a person interprets is dependant partly upon that person's death he wrote presuppositions about the first account of Jesus' life and timesBible. Matthew was written towards If a Jewish audience, he constantly emphasised how Jesus fulfilled person comes to the prophecies laid out in Bible with the Old Testament and was therefore the Messiah. Luke view that it is the only non-Jewish author in the Bible. He wrote for a [[Gentile]] audience. Luke tended to use historical context simply an ancient text full of mythology then his day such as the Census and interpretation will be vastly different from someone who was in charge in [[Rome]] and [[Palestine]] during Jesus' day to back up his claims that Jesus was views the Saviour. Because Matthew, Mark, and Luke contain similar stories and sayings they are known Bible as the [[Synoptic Gospels]] (Gk for to-be-seen-together). John is slightly different. It contains JesusGod' I AM statements in which [[Jesus]] testifies that He is the Saviour. These four books tell the story of Jesus and show why He came to Earth. To die on the Cross and to rise again so that our sins were taken away and we would be made right with GODs revelation.

====Biblical '''[[EpistlesHermeneutics]]====''' is the technical term for the study of interpreting and understanding the Bible and applying it to today's context. It is closely related to '''[[exegesis]]''' which is the study of understanding what the Biblical author's meant and what their audience would have understood.

Epistles are letters to Christian communitiesSome Christians hold a literalistic or inerrant view of the Bible. The major letter writers in [[Biblical inerrancy]] is the view that the Early Church were PaulBible, Peteras the inspired Word of God, James, Johnis without error and is accurate in all aspects, including in aspects of history and Judescience. Peter and Paul were [[Biblical infallibility]] on the other hand is the major missionaries in their day and they wrote letters to view that the communities they preached to. Paul wrote towards Gentile communities such as Corinth, Ephesus, Bible is free from errors on issues of faith and Rome. He would talk about Jesus Christpractice, how Christians should act, and advise them on certain issues such but minor contradictions in history or science can be overlooked as eating meat, dealing with others, and how insignificant to behave in worship. Peter and James also wrote likewiseits spiritual purpose.

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