in celebration of national bible week, i shall be sharing some of the lessons from my high 1 cle classes at xavier school last year, particularly about the sacred scriptures.
If God has revealed Himself by communicating His will to man, man must be able to know with assurance where that revelation lies. Hence, there is the need for a list of books of the Bible.
The official list of Bible books was determined by the believing community which had a “sense” of which books told the truth about who God is. This list is known as the Canon of the Bible. This refers to the books in the Old and the New Testaments, which are recognized by the Church as divinely inspired since they truly reveal God’s love and His relationship with His people then and now.
Guided by the Holy Spirit, the Church determined the inspired books in terms of their apostolic origin, coherence with the essential Gospel teachings and constant use in the Church’s liturgy. (CFC 88) The final list of books of the Bible officially came to us through the Council of Trent in 1546. There are 73 books in the Catholic Bible, 46 from the OT and 27 from the NT.
Tomorrow: The Old and New Testaments
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