Religion Notes

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Unit 4.2 pages 76-77

A guide is a person who knows the place well and can show us around and explain. A guide could also be a book that has been written to guide us using by reading. using pictures and so on. In the same way, we need guide to life to live the best way possible.

The Bible narrates stories of many people, it also tells us about the mistakes they have made. Above all, it teaches us on how they gradually discovered the presence of God in their lives. The Bible relates he story of a number of people as they journeyed with God. It shows us that life is a journey.

It was God who inspired people to write the Bible but not directly through him, he sent a message through a person like us to tell these people to write the Bible. God used people too show is deep love for the person. This process is called "inspiration" which means that the Holy Spirit helped the authors recognize the message to convey.

Unit 4.3 pages 78-79

The very first Bible was written many years ago in Hebrew or in Greek which made it very hard for people to read. The first translation of the whole Bible into Maltese from the original languages was done by Mgr Pietru Pawl Saydon between 1929 and 1959.

The Bible was considered a library of books. In fact, it contains 73 books which were written by different authors. However, they were still all written by God, we can say that God is the principal author because he was the one to inspire the authors to write the Bible.

The first book ever written was the Genesis and the second book was Exodus. The Old Testament has 46 books and The New Testament has 27 books.

Unit 4.5 pages 84-85

God's intention of the Bible is not simply of communicating a story or a number of stories, but a message of love. A message of love, salvation and fullness of life which is found in every story of the Bible.

In the first book, the Genesis, we see the deep love from Abraham to God. It tells us about the things he has done for God- he even offered to sacrifice his own son.

In the second book we find the story on how God helped his people escape from Egypt. He then gave them the 10 commandments.

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Unit 4.6 pages 88-89

When the son of God became man, he gave us the opportunity to have some sort of guide no our lives. He wanted to become like us and share our experiences but above all, he wanted to communicate directly with us, he wanted us to see him face to face. He didn't want to make us feel like God didn't understand us.

Jesus was not a prophet that came to Earth to pass on a message from God, Jesus himself is the message. Jesus didn't show the meaning of love through long homilies, but by showing us how to love. We can see Jesus' love through the forgiveness he gave, in his friendship with others, in the compassion he showed when he healed the sick and, above all, his death on the cross. He save us through death and resurrection.

Unit 4.7 pages 90-91

When the Jews fled from Egypt they needed a set of rules to help them live together so God gave them the Ten Commandments. True harmony must be built through our union with God. Therefore, the first three commandments will help them keep God present in their lives. The other 7 were intended to stop people from hurting Each other.

Jesus then, did not destroy the Commandments, yet squashed them together into The Great Commandment; "You must love God with all your mind, heart and soul... You must love your neighbour as yourself" .

Unit 4.8 pages 92-93

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