Hello everyone! My name is Dominique Quiroz and I am a sophomore this year. I am in my second year of pre-pharmacy. I am from Berne, which is a super small town in northeast Indiana. My family moved to Indianapolis after I graduated high school and now I commute to Butler. I am taking this class mainly because of the TI requirement, but also out of curiosity. I was raised going to church, and my town was pretty religious. I wanted to see what I could learn about the Bible from a different perspective.
In my opinion, a Bible is a book of books. It is the Christian/Jewish scripture and provides a sort of book of advice on how to best live your lives in your religion. A Bible contains the beliefs, practices, and principles that followers should listen to.
My preconception is that the Bible was written by a bunch of different men. Their writings are “the word of God” because he worked through them so that their words were his words. At least that’s what I remember from when I went to church.
When I Googled “What is a Bible,” I got a lot of results that were religiously affiliated websites. I also got a lot of Wikipedia pages. Most of these search results were “.com” with a few “.org” results in the mix. I’m super glad that we’ll be learning about which sources can be trusted and how to tell which ones are too biased to be used in research because if I had to do research about the Bible at this point I would be pretty lost.