The Ten Basic

Christian
Doctrines
 1. The Bible is a Unity

Though it has many

individual books in it, the
Bible is a unity. It is both one
book and many books. It has
unity and diversity.
 2. The bible has two testaments

the most obvious and significant division in the

Bible is that it has two large sections known as

testaments. A testament is a covenant, or holy

contract between God and man.

The first is the Old Covenant. It makes up about

three-fourths of the bible, which about a third

by Moses.
 The Old testament
consists of the Law, the Prophets and
the Writings of Psalm (luke 24:44)
The New Testament revolves around
the new covenant which Jesus
instituted to replace the Old Covenant
 3. The Bible Has Sixty-six Books

The Old Testament contains 39 books, the New Testament 27.

Psalms is the longest then Isaiah.

The books of the Apocrypha are not part of the Bible. Though,

Romanism accepts them, neither the ancient Jews nor Protestants

have ever accept them.

There are no “lost books” to be found which belong in the Bible.

 4. God has Many Human Authors to Write the Bible

Moses wrote more than any other individual, then

David, Luke (Luke-Acts), Paul, John and Solomon. Some

of the most famous people in Scripture did not write a

book in the Bible, such as John the Baptist, James the

Apostle, Elijah, Mary, or the Lord Jesus.

Some books are anonymous (such as Hebrews)

two books are entirely about women (Ruth and Esther)

 5. The Bible was written in
Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the

language of God’s Old Covenant people Israel.

Hebrew is a Semitic language written from right to
left, each word based around three consonants, with a
grammar and vocabulary very different than English,
parts of Daniel and Ezra, and a few words and verses
elsewhere, were written in Aramaic.
Aramaic was the lingua franca
of the ancient near east until
superceded by Arabic. It was
very similar to Hebrew. The
New Testament was written in
koine (common) Greek.
 6. God has preserved the
original bible text
Jesus promised that his word would never pass

away. We call this Providential Preservation.

Scriptures is the means of salvation and the main

means of revelation in this age. Satan has tried to

destroy it, but the Bible is an anvil that has worn out

many hammers.
 There are over 5,000
Greek manuscripts and
over 1000 Hebrew
manuscripts of the Bible,
plus ancient translation
and quotations.
 7. We should not Add to
or Subtract from the Bible.
Since the Bible is a
complete unity, it is very
serious to tamper with it.
Some English translations
are based on the minority
of ancient manuscripts
which are faulty.
 8. The bible was first
Translated into Ancient
Languages
Probably the first translation was when Jews in
Egypt translated the Old Testament into Greek
sometime around 20 B.C. This is known as the
Septuagint. The samaritans translated the
Pentateuch into their language, with alterations .
In the early church, there
were early translations
into Latin, Syriac, Coptic,
Gothic, Armenian,
Georgian, Ethiopic, and
Arabic.