Across
- 2. The defense of the Christian faith
- 3. Means 'pick it up and read it'
- 8. Consists of the first five books of the Bible
- 12. The doctrine that God enabled people to write the words of Scripture
- 13. A person who follows Christ
- 16. The background and setting that clarifies meaning
- 20. The process for understanding and interpreting a text
- 21. The collection of biblical writings acknowledged as genuine and authoritative
- 24. Evidence from Scripture supporting its own claims
- 25. Early theologians who established the foundations of Christianity
- 26. What the Jews call the Old Testament
- 27. differences between particular words, phrases, or passages within multiple copies of the same ancient manuscript
- 28. A Christian’s primary calling
- 29. oldest surviving collection of Jewish canonical texts written 300-400 years before the birth of Christ
Down
- 1. A book written by an apostle or an associate of an apostle
- 4. The inventor of the printing press
- 5. The doctrine that the Bible is without error in the original writings
- 6. Medieval scribes who ensured exact copies of Scripture
- 7. Means 'holy one'; believers set apart by God
- 9. The Bible was written in specific languages, times, and cultures
- 10. Jewish literature written during the intertestamental period
- 11. A worldview denying a defining source of truth or reality
- 14. A heresy that taught the material world was inherently evil
- 15. The explanation of a text based on careful study
- 17. God’s universal revelation through nature and conscience
- 18. God’s unique revelation through Jesus Christ, Scripture, and miracles
- 19. A pattern of ideas & beliefs that help us make sense of the world and guide our decisions
- 22. The best-selling book of all time
- 23. Belief that truth or morality is relative to the individual or society