What does it mean when we say that the Bible is an inspired book?

The Sacred Canon

The two sources of Divine Revelation that we know are Scripture and Tradition . Scripture is inspired by revelation of God , while tradition is by commandments and doctrines of men . Catholic Church accepts that revelation comes before scriptures . ADDIN EN .CITE July 10 Spiritbride July 10 2002http /www .beliefnet .com /boa rds_mini /index .asp ?pageID 2 boardID 23502October 24 2006July 10 Spiritbride July 10 2002http /www .beliefnet .com /boa rds_mini /index .asp ?pageID 2 boardID 23502October 24 2006July 10 Spiritbride July

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The Canon of Sacred Scripture is the bible itself , which God gave to us as a valuable gift of life

Moses 's five books include Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy . Historical books in the bible comprise Book of Joshua Judges , Ruth , Nehemiah , 1st and 2nd Books of Samuel , Kings and Chronicles , and the 2nd Book of Esther . Prophetic books are books which contain prophecies , and it include Book of Isaiah , Jeremiah , Jeremiah Ezekiel , Daniel , and twelve books of the minor prophets , Hosea , Joel Amos , Obadiah , Jonah , Micah , Nahum , Habbakuk , Zephaniah , Haggai Zechariah and Malachi . Doctrinal books include The Book of Job Proverbs , Psalms , Ecclesiastes and Book of Song of Solomon . ADDIN EN .CITE AlexanderOctober 8 Bishop AlexanderUnderstanding the BibleOctober 8 2000http /www .fatheralexander .o rg /booklets /english /bible1_e .htmOctober 24 , 2006 (Alexander October 8 , 2000

Jeremiah and Baruch are closely related and both were placed under the Book of Jeremiah . Lamentations make Jeremiah and Baruch distinct in Greek Septuagint . So they were separated as two different books Lamentations was separated because it is not probable that it is just written by only one man because the themes of the five poems were hardly treated

The difference between the Catholic bibles and Protestant bibles is mainly in the number of books it contained . Catholic bibles contain 46 books , while Protestant 's contain 39 . The books omitted from the Protestant 's bible but is in the Catholics bible are the Books of Tobit Judith , Wisdom , Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus , First and Second Maccabees Baruch , and parts of Daniel and Esther .Protestants call those as Apocrypha while Catholics call it Deuterocanonical books Deuterocanonical books contain words to live a holy life and inspiring stories of Jewish heroes . These books record the history of Jews from Babylonian exile and during the birth of Christ . ADDIN EN .CITE SpeyrerJune Jude SpeyrerThe Catholic DifferenceJune 1991http /www .epiphanychurch .or g /question /question1 .htmOctober 24 , 2006 (Speyrer , June 1991

Protestants omitted Apocrypha because during the early times , there were two Jewish bibles which were widely used , one was the Hebrew bible and the other was Septuagint bible . When translations of bibles were rampant , they translated the longer version which consisted of 80 percent of Septuagint 's content . And that longer translation was now used by the Catholics . On...