What is meant by calling the Bible a record of human experience of God?

Recall questions on liberal and neo-orthodox views of scripture, the canon and translation, form and redaction criticism and conservative distrust of it, and the Bible in worship including lectio divina.

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Why do liberal Christians insist the Bible must be read in its cultural context?

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Why is translation an issue for biblical authority?

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What is redaction criticism concerned with?

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Why do liberal Christians insist the Bible must be read in its cultural context?
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It was written within particular ancient societies whose assumptions about slavery, cosmology and the place of women were their own rather than God's eternal teaching.
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What is meant by calling the Bible a record of human experience of God?
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It is the testimony of people who encountered God, making it a fallible human witness to revelation rather than revelation itself.
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Explain the neo-orthodox view, associated with Karl Barth, of how the Bible becomes the word of God.
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The Bible is a human witness that becomes the word of God for the reader at the moment God chooses to speak through it.
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Give two ways a literal view of biblical authority can shape moral decisions.
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It can lead a Christian to reject same-sex relationships and to refuse to accept evolution, because the relevant texts are taken as directly binding.
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How does belief in inerrancy affect a Christian's response to the scientific dating of the earth?
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They treat the biblical account as the higher authority and reject or reinterpret the scientific dating.
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State what is meant by the canon of scripture.
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It is the list of books that the Church recognises as authoritative scripture.

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