Scripture

Why Scripture?

In this section I will give a brief description of why (Scripture) is very important in our every day routine. Not to mention in the following of (Scripture) in the Bible through the Holy Spirit.

As we know scripture is an important doctrinal and Biblical interpretive principle for many in the evangelical Christians community. The doctrine of perspicuity of scripture accept the Calvinist teaching that man is deprived and needs illumination of the Holy Spirit in order to see the meaning for what it is in “Scripture”.

Like all things related to certain faiths and religions involving “Scripture”. All have their own definitions and views.

The doctrine can also be viewed as with the standard Ecclesiastical and Catholic interpretation.  The doctrine can be contacted by positions which assert that subjective experience, preferred over knowing the originally intended meaning of “Scripture”, since it basically unclear.

Lutherans hold the Bible being presents of all doctrines and commands of the Christian faith clearly. God’s Word, meaning no body needs to wait for any clergy and pope, scholar, or ecumenical council to explain the real meaning of any part of the Bible. Only that one must understand the language of God’s Word, and to not be preoccupied by contrary thoughts to prevent understanding. All are freely to access God’s Word, as a reader and as a hearer of ordinary intelligence.

When it comes to “Scripture” tied in with many churches, there tends to be argumentative thoughts between Old Testament and New Testament.

For example:

The Old Testament, viewed as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. As for the New Testament, it is consisting of books added after Jesus’ death.

Some Christians disagree on the content of the Old Testament. The Orthodox Churches and Catholic Churches and even some Protestants recognize an additional set of Jewish writings. These are the deuterocanonical books. To the Jews these are not accepted as cononical. Even though some ancient Jews appear to have accepted them.

In early Christian writings some individual Christians regard as “Scripture”. Even though they are not generally regarded as such by most churches. These do include the apocryphal gospels, such as the Gospel according to Hebrews, Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

OK, have I totally confused you? How does this contain to "Scripture"?

Let me break it down to you in two pieces in regards to the Old Testament and the New Testament.

First Century CE, the books of the Tanakh were separate scrolls and their order was seen as unimportant. The question of order finally arose with the invention of the codex. Christians were early adopters of this technology and may have invented it. Order of the books is bound up with early Jewish-Christian polemics.

Jews regard the Old Testament part of the Christian Bible as “Scriptural”.

Even though Christians generally regard both the Old Testament and the New Testament as “Scriptural”.

These same books show present in the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament but in different order. The Torah and Pentateuch comes first in both. Of course the Tanakh places the prophetic writings as the word of God filtered through the minds of inspired men. Seen as the historical material as the unseen action of God in history. Old Testament inverts this order, since the prophets are seen as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ.

As we know the definition of the word “Scripture” could range from ancient Biblical times to current times as some may see it.

According to Webster’s definition on the word “Scripture” it is:

Any sacred writing.

Sacred writings of the Jews; Old Testament.

Christian Bible; Old and New Testaments.

One couldn’t put the Webster’s definition more plainly.