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- 3. According to this view, the writers of the Bible exhibit a natural religious intuition that is also found in other great philosophical or religious thinkers, such as Confucius or Plato.
- 4. This view holds that God dictated the exact words to the human authors.
- 7. This view holds that the Spirit of God in some way did objectively impress himself upon the consciousness of the biblical writers but not in a way that is essentially different from the way the Spirit communicates with all humanity.
- 9. The idea of a divine influence provoking the writing of scripture
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- 1. Isaiah through daniel, longer, not because they are more important
- 2. This view asserts that God gave definite, specific impressions or concepts to the biblical authors but that allowed the writers to communicate those concepts in their own words.
- 5. Comes from the Latin word testamentum, meaning “covenant” or “agreement.”
- 6. Claiming that the Scriptures are____means that the Bible is completely truthful in all things that the biblical authors assert—whether in geographic, chronological, or theological details.
- 7. According to modern dictionaries, also means “incapable of error.”
- 8. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are the same as the Christian Old Testament—the books of Moses, or _____