_____________________ asks the question, was it written by an apostle or an apostolic companion? Group of answer choices apostolicity antiquity catholicity orthodoxy. Bird: “The... _____________________ asks the question, was it written by an apostle or an apostolic companion? Group of answer choices apostolicity antiquity catholicity orthodoxy. Bird: “The problem is that if we disrespect the historical distance [between today and the first century], we will potentially distort the Bible’s proper interpretation.” Group of answer choices True False. Bird: “In order to make the Bible meaningful, relevant, and applicable, the Bible first must be defamiliarized and dislocated from our own time. . . We have to grasp how strange the biblical world is before we can try to make it familiar to [us].” Group of answer choices True False. Bird: “There is a real danger that we become overly familiar with the Bible in the sense that we read our own experiences into it.” Group of answer choices True False. Bird: “In order to make the Bible meaningful, relevant, and applicable, the Bible first must be defamiliarized and dislocated from our own time. . . We have to grasp how strange the biblical world is before we can try to make it familiar to [us].” Group of answer choices True False. “Scripture should be read for the purpose of winning intellectual arguments. . . . We must seek to convince everyone that we are correct, and they are incorrect.” —Samuel Waje Kunhijop, African Christian Ethics (2008) Group of answer choices True False. Bird: “In the rush to make the Bible instantaneously relevant, we can inadvertently misuse it by not recognizing the specific situation of the authors and lazily pick up something that seems handy to us on a first read.” Group of answer choices True False. The historical context means we don’t just read a verse; rather, we read the entire paragraph, story, chapter, and even book. Group of answer choices True False. Bird: “A central conviction in the Christian understanding of Scripture should be that Jesus fulfills what was promised to Israel about the Messiah in the Old Testament and Jesus remains the primary subject matter of the New Testament.” Group of answer choices True False. _____________________ asks the question, can it be dated to the apostolic era? Group of answer choices catholicity antiquity apostolicity orthodoxy. Read more