REFUEL Discovering the Truths of Your Faith

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RE-FUELDiscovering the Truths of Your Faith

• June 20th 2005
• An Introduction to Scripture

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The Bible Alone?

• Sola Scriptura
• It goes against the BIBLE
• Magisterium Jesus left a Church to govern
• Tradition Meant to couple with Scripture
• John 2125
• It goes against HISTORY
• For 300 years after Christ there was no such
  thing as the Bible, but was there still a saving
  Church? YES!!
• It goes against COMMON SENSE
• A document requires a living authority to guard
  and interpret it
• ex. The Constitution

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The Canon of the Bible

• The writing of the New Testament took place in
  the first century
• Catholic Councils
• Inspired by the Holy Spirit
• Canon was closed by Pope Innocent I in 405 AD
• We are obliged to yield to the Papists
  Catholics that they possess the Word of God
  which we received from them, otherwise we should
  have known nothing at all about it -Martin
  Luther
• I would put no faith in the Gospels unless the
  authority of the Catholic Church directed me to
  do so. - St. Augustine
• It is contradictory for someone to accept the
  Bible yet reject the authority who gave it to
  them.

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Salvation HistoryA Story About Who We Are

• Covenant Love
• def. An exchange of persons
• This is who God is
• It is who He is to us

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Covenant 1Adam and Eve

• Genesis 315
• I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
  between your offspring and hers. He will strike
  at your head while you strike at his heal.
• This is a promise of deliverance

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Covenant 2Noah

• God extends his covenant from one couple to a
  household.
• They now become the chosen ones.
• God renews His Covenant
• RE-creation
• Gen 99-13
• I will establish my covenant with you and your
  descendants after you and with every living
  creature that was with you

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Covenant 3Abraham and Sarah

• Here God extends His covenant to an entire tribe.
  
• Gen. 121-3
• God gives him 3 promises within the covenant
• 1. To make him a great nation
• 2. To make his name great
• 3. To bless families of the earth through him
• God chose Abraham to be the father of these great
  things, and he proves to be faithful

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Covenant 4Moses

• God extends His covenant to a nation
• This is the answer to Gods first promise to
  Abraham, to make him a great nation
• God calls Moses to guide His people to a nation
  of this covenant, this is meant to be the
  promised land
• Ex 66-8
• I will take you for my people, and I will be
  your God.
• This statement makes these people a holy nation

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Covenant 5David

• Gods covenant covers an entire Kingdom
• Kingdoms include other nations
• This is an answer to the second promise to
  Abraham, I will make your name great.
• This Kingdom has a common worship
• Psalm 8927
• the Son of David will be the firstborn, the
  highest of the Kings on earth.
• The term highest in Hebrew was usually reserved
  for God Himself.

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Covenant 6 Jesus

• The perfect fulfillment of all promises
• New Covenant
• Extends to all as a Universal covenant
• Jesus is an answer to the 3rd promise to Abraham-
  to bless the families of the earth
• Jesus uses the word covenant only once, Mt
  2626-27
• this is the blood of the covenant, which will
  be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of
  sins.
• For us, this means the Eucharist

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Covenant 6 Jesus

• Jesus is
• the new Adam
• the seed of Abraham
• the new Moses
• the Son of David
• and the Son of God
• He had to be all these things to fulfill the
  promises made by His Father.