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The name of the Christian ____________________ text is the ____________________ and it is made up of many books . It is the central source of authority used in public worship , private study , meditation and decision making and is made up of the ____________________ Testament and the New ____________________ .
The Old Testament is the first part of the Christian Bible and was originally the Tenakh in the Jewish Scriptures . Some of the books you would find in the Old Testament are ____________________ , Psalms ( which is a book of songs ) and ____________________ ( which is a prophecy book )
The New Testament is the second half of the Christian Bible and contains the new salvation message from God . It has the ____________________ ( all about Jesus' life ) and Acts ( the history of the Church ) . Then there are the Letters of St ____________________ ( Early Christian teachings ) and finally Revelation ( prophecy of the end of the world ! )
People interpret the Bible in different ways . For example ____________________ or ____________________ think that every word in the Bible is true and was imparted to the writers from God via the Holy Spirit . They would interpret the story of Genesis by saying that God made the world in 6x24 ____________________ .
However a ____________________ interpretation would say that the authors of the books of the Bible wrote under God's inspiration and may be some issues of interpretation . So they would interpret the Genesis story by saying that God made the world in 6 x time periods . This is the same way the word gay has changed over time .
Finally a ____________________ interpretation would say that the Bible need not be read literally but can be interpreted as a product of its time . Therefore for the Genesis story it doesn't matter about the time , God made the world !
The Bible was first written in Aramaic , Greek and ____________________ . This meant that the Bible had to be translated into people's own language so everyone could understand it . The first person to do this in England was William ____________________ translated the Bible into English in the ____________________ century .
However the Bible is not the only source of authority as some people follow tradition which is the way the Church interprets the Bible and teaches people this message through ____________________ ( speeches ) in Church to explain the teachings . ( Though possibly the way the priest wants it to be read ? ) . Sometimes this is done on a wider scale , for example the Pope gives ____________________ which are formal statements from the Pope to explain a part of the Bible .