03. What is the Bible?
The questions are the title of the above painting by Paul Gauguin, explained in Wikipedia as follows:
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (French: D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered “a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels”.
Wiki explains that Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school with a strong religious focus, and although he became anticlerical, these questions stayed with him.
1. Authority of the Bible
Can the bible declare its own authority?
(a) What does the bible say in the verses above?
(b) What do you think?
(4b) How does this differ from most other books you see, and how would this affect its content?
(a) What does the bible say?
(b) What do you think?
2. Source of the Bible
(a) What does the bible say?
(b) What do you think?
What can we say about this?
What do you think?
3. Purpose of the Bible
What do you think?
Although I would like to have a pop-up form which allows you to keep your personal answers here, I haven't found how to do that within budget. So, I plan to prepare downloadable pdf files with fillable spaces for your answers - yet to be done.
