Who wrote the Bible?

Question

Do people of faith really believe that God wrote the Bible. That is simply came down on a cloud from heaven. Or did humans write the bible, having been "inspired" by God.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Many people wrote books that are in what we consider the Bible. At conferences set up to decide what should be in the Bible all the participants had to agree 100% that a book should be included. Some would say , and I agree, that it would take the working of the Holy Spirit of God to have so many theologians and learned men agree on anything much less the number they finally settled on. It can be quite disconcerting to think about the Bible as a man made book put together as a picture of who God is. We are never told to worship the Bible anywhere in scripture but we should respect it as the only Holy Spirit inspired Book of authority and insite into the person of God. I think too many ppl get caught up in worshiping the Bible instead of the One who is behind it.

Answer 3

The Bible was written by forty or so men, over a 1500 year period. As Peter states, "...Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." (I Peter 1:21b)

In actuality, the word "inspired" is not quite the best translation of the Greek word. The Greek word translated "inspired," is more correctly, "God-breathed," since the Greek is Theopneustos- -literally, "God-breathed."

We know that God is the ultimate author of it, because one third of the Bible is prophecy. 456 Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Most of them written hundreds of years before His birth. (And before anyone says, 'Well, He saw which prophecies there were and showed those ignorant people that He was the Messiah by saying that He fulfilled them,' let me ask this....How do you choose your birthplace and be from the exact lineage of David? Would you willingly be tortured to try and prove a point?

Alfred Edersheim, a former Jew (and biblical scholar), became a Christian by studying these very prophecies. He concluded that it is only in Jesus of Nazareth that these were fulfilled.

Professor Peter Stoner of Westmont College, determined that for one man to fulfill 8 of these prophecies was one chance in 10 to the 17th power. (That's a 10 with 17 zeroes after it.)

And if that is not enough proof for you that the Bible is the inspired (or God breathed), then let's look at some additional evidence.

In the last 12 verses of Mark's Gospel, some have disputed the authenticity of these verses, saying that they were added later. But, if we are willing to see with our eyes, and understand with our hearts and minds, we'll see truth.

There are 175 (7 x 25) words in the Greek text of Mark 16:9-20. Curious. These words use a total vocabulary of 98 different words (7 x 14), an exact multiple of seven. That's rather striking.

Try constructing a passage in which both the number of words and the number of letters are precisely divisible by seven (with no remainder)! The random chance of a number being precisely divisible by 7 is one chance in seven. In seven tries, there will be an average of six failures.

The chance of two numbers both being divisible by 7 exactly is one in 7 to the 2nd power, or one in 49. (This is a convenient simplification; some mathematical statisticians would argue the chance is one in 91.5 ) This still might be viewed as an accidental occurrence, or the casual contrivance of a clever scribe. But let's look further. The number of letters in this passage is 553, also a precise multiple of seven (7 x 79). This is getting a bit more tricky. The chance of three numbers accidentally being precisely divisible by seven is one in 7 to the third power, or one in 343. This increasingly appears to be suspiciously deliberate.

As we examine the vocabulary of those 98 (7 x 14) words: 84 (7 x 12) are found before in Mark; 14 (7 x 2) are found only here. 42 (7 x 6) are found in the Lord's address (vv.15-18); 56 (7 x 8) are not part of His vocabulary here.

This is, conspicuously, not random chance at work, but highly skillful design.

Anyway, with just this small evidence, we can see that there is something special, even unique about the Scriptures, and that they are indeed, God-breathed.

Answer 4

Many different people wrote the Bible over hundreds of years. They were "inspired" by God in as much as any writers are. Some more than others. Some people insist that God "dictated" every word of the Bible, which is ridiculous.

Answer 5

The bible was written by men. But the actual words come from three sources. The first divine person, God the Father, who specifically spoke the words written by Moses and many of the other Old Testament prophets as recorded "the Lord said/says".

The second divine person, God the Son (Jesus Christ), who specifically spoke the words written by the Gospel writers and again by John in the book of Revelation as recorded "Jesus said/says".

The third divine person, God the Holy Spirit, who spoke through the inspired Word as recorded in the entire Old and New Testament, except for a few opinions of Paul as he states. He also spoke through the use of spiritual gifts at Pentecost (tongues of fire).

Answer 6

Human beings wrote the Old and New Testaments. Most of the New Testament was written by Paul who wrote his letters even before the Gospels were written.

If they were inspired by God, then I would ask why so many contradictions exist in the Bible.

Inspiration does not preclude error.

Answer 7

I believe that humans physically wrote the Bible, but it is inspired by God, revealed to men through the speaking of the Holy Spirit. "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NASB)

Answer 8

Most Christians believe the Bible was divinely inspired by God but written by people.

Answer 9

MEN wrote the Bible after having visions or revelations from GOD, thus God inspired the bible to be written. 40 writers 72 books 1600 years to complete yet it has ONE smooth theme of salvation throughout because of ONE author-God.

Answer 10

Many many different writers, including scribes who patched various pieces of text together, often with a few transcription errors. The fact that the Bible has been viewed as sacred lieterature, and therefore one of the most important books known, has made it the most intensely studied. Maybe that's a "problem", because scholarly techniques, study of inks, scrpits, word frequencies, etc., reveal hidden facts of the true provenance of the text and even how it has changed over centuries since assembled under the aegis of the Emperor Constantine.

Answer 11

Many people who claim to have talked to God or heard God through some form wrote it. The Old testament is actually the Torah, the Jewish religous scriptures. The New Testament has more Chatholic things in it. I think that it was written by guys who were high but they didn't know it and they thought they were talking to God.