Quiz on Sacred Scripture

Which of the following words do we use when we describe how God authored Sacred Scripture?

• Living

• Inerrant

• Inspired

• Literalistic

Which of the following words do we use when we explain that we encounter God in the reading of Sacred Scripture and that the words are relevant to our lives?

• Living

• Inerrant

• Inspired

• Literalistic

The standard list of inspired books of the Bible: Catholic lists 46 in Old Testament, and 27 in New Testament.

• Tradition

• Testament

• Canon

• Vulgate

Catholic Bibles contain seven books that are not a part of the Protestant Bible. We describe these as ____.

• Traditional

• Redaction

• Anagogical

• Deuterocanonical

Biblical scholars use ____ to determine the literal sense of the Bible.

• Exegesis
• Genealogy

• History

• Sacred Scripture

Who can guide you toward a more correct interpretation of Sacred Scripture?

• The Magisterium

• Scripture Scholars

• The Holy Spirit

• All of the above

• None of the above

What do we mean when we say that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of the Bible?

• The Holy Spirit guided them, ensuring the divine God's message to us.

• The authors of the Bible were not influenced by any divine guidance.
• The Holy Spirit wrote the Bible directly without human authors.
• The Bible was created solely through human effort and creativity.

Are all Bibles the same?

• Every version of the Bible has exactly the same words.

• No, the Catholic Bible has not the same books than Protestant Bibles

• The Bible is a single book with no variations.
• All Bibles have the same books.

This understanding of Scripture is when word and phrases to mean exactly what they say:

• Literalist

• Literal

This understanding of Scripture uses exegesis to learn what God is revealing.

• Literalist

• Literal