2006-06-16 17:03:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
66 books from Gen. to Reve.
39 books are the Hebrew Scriptures (OT)
God is the author/ and it shows about 40 different human secretaries or scribes. God's finger began the writing by craving out the ten commandments on stone tablets.
All types of men were used -shepherd, farmer,tent maker,fisherman,tax collector,physician,priest,prophet,king and so on.
it has one basic theme from beginning to end and very connected even though written
ages apart.
Copyists have preserved it for centuries. On finding the Dead Sea Scrolls other than some wording little has been changed the meaning was still correct.
The so called lost books (book of Judah and such) are not part of cannon as all the other books harmonized with each other from beginning to end-these did not. Remember even in Jesus day others wrote to dispute his teachings.
2006-06-16 20:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible had many, many writers. Much more than the 38 or 40 cited here. There were many other scriptures floating around that were considered part of the Bible, until they were removed by the various Councils convened to decide what stayed and what got the boot. And, as anyone who's seen "The Gospel of Judas" knows, many of the writers had contradictory views of events. In fact, of the scriptures that did make the cut, there are hundreds of factual contradictions. It's hard to reconcile those contradictions with the idea that the Bible only has one divine author. Perhaps the God who wrote the Bible needs a fact-checker to help him get his story straight.
2006-06-16 17:19:43 · answer #2 · answered by lamoviemaven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even a casual reading of the Bible will reveal that most of it was dictated by God. The places are too numerous to mention all of them but here are a few. Isaiah 30 verse 8. Jeremiah 30 verse 2. Exodus 17 verse 14. Revelation 1 verse 11.
2006-06-16 17:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by euhmerist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the only author of the Bible.
2006-06-16 17:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by allnationsca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a " Work for hire".
God being the author, the writers the workers.
This is the only Holy book where God had the message delivered directly to the writers. The Qur'an? No. The Book of Mormon? No.
2006-06-16 17:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
40 men + 1 Holy spirit = 41
2006-06-16 17:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every "book of the bible" has a different author.
If not more than one for some of them.
2006-06-16 17:25:22 · answer #7 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to the bible 38 people wrote the bible.
2006-06-16 17:09:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only one.
2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2006-06-16 17:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many. What kills me is how many people today are willing to accept on faith, as absolute truth, every word that was written by all those writers thousands of years ago.
2006-06-16 17:08:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋