The Bible Defined 11022011

Other source of supernatural knowledge is the Bible In the words of the Council of Trent Which enumerated the books of the Bible under their proper titles The Church declares that she receives All the books of the Testaments Old and New Since the one God is the author of both The Vatican Council is more explicit The Church holds those books as sacred Canonical Not because Having been composed by human industry They were afterwards approved by her authority Nor, just because They contain revelation without error But, having been written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit They have God as their Author The word Bible comes from the Greek ninlion meaning “the book” The plural is biblia, was taken for a feminine singular Testaments The Bible is the Book par Excellence