Hadji Azis, Nor-Faidah February 28, 2022

BSA1_2 REED 2 (16080)

 Guided Questions:
1. What is Bible?
2.  Biblical Exegesis?
3. What is the difference between exegesis and eisegesis?
4. What is the Catholic Understanding of Inspiration?
5. What is inerrancy of the Bible?

Answers:
1. The Bible is Christianity's holy book. It is a collection of sacred Christian writings that
includes the Old and New Testaments, as well as all or part of the Apocrypha in some
Roman Catholic versions.

2. The process of understanding a Biblical text is known as Biblical Exegesis. It entails the
interpretation, explanation, and exposition of the Bible's various books in relation to their
composition dates or the meanings they have for readers in following centuries.

3. Exegesis allows the text to reveal what the author is trying to convey to the reader. This
allows us to investigate the significance of a passage written for a certain audience. While
eisegesis is when we read into a text with a prior notion. This could involve approaching
the Bible through a skewed cultural perspective that didn't exist at the time it was written.

4. Inspiration is one of those ad extra actions in God, as theologians put it, and hence it is
shared by the three Divine Persons. Inspiration, like every other actual grace, is a
transient participation of Divine power, with the inspired writer becoming invested with
it just at the time of writing or when thinking about writing. An inspiration that is not
accompanied by a revelation, that is fitted to the regular functioning of the faculties of the
human soul, that can determine the will of the inspired writer by human motives, does not
necessarily imply that the one who is the object of it is aware of it.
5. The belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching" or, at the very least,
that "Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to
fact" is known as biblical inerrancy. The Bible is error-free in what it says about
geography, history, and science, as well as what it says about God, in its original texts. Its
authority extends to all topics addressed in the Bible.