is there any truth to this?

Question

the bible was put togather by a group of men who picked and chose from all the scrolls they had laying around during the councel of Nicia. i heard that they just chose the favorites books of that time just to unfiy rome under one religion. if this is true then how can the bible be truly correct.
what if the Apocrypha or the dead sea scrolls are more corrcet

Answer 1

Pretty much everything you said is true...No one knows the true authors of the bible and they just assume it was divine writings but I mean every religion thinks these things...Think about this quick little bit of info for a sec....Ancient mayan ruins and aztec ruins tell about men coming from space...and they pretty much describe aliens...and what about the Nazca lines? Does that mean anything? who knows...Religion is about as uncertain as we are about if aliens are real

Answer 2

Star Warz is more like Hinduism in my opinion

but the answer is depends what you mean by favorite, of course the church picks the books they felt were the most reliable and valuable. If you want to say favorite fine. But it wasnt as lghtly as it sounds

They picked scrolls written by apostles or with the confirmation of an apostle where an apostle was a person perosnally ocmmisioned by Jesus. Some so called books such as the gospel of Thomas or Judas would not either have existed yet or not been considered reliable.

The church fathers quoted alost every verse in theNew Testament in their writings withing the first 150 years and so we can be sure they had high opinion of the scolls which became the New teswtament

Just as New Testament books were written by an apostle or with approval of an apostle, simiarly the Jewish elders who selected the books for the Old Testament chose book written by a prophet or books made with the approval of a prophet

So in a sense the group of believers did put a stamp of approval on the collection of books but had good reason

Answer 3

The bible is more than just a book put together by a couple of men who picked and choose what they wanted in it. The dead sea scrolls are really very similar to the bible it's just a few things have been changed. There are bibles that are made from the dead sea scrolls. The catholic church uses that version also the Muslim religion came out of the dead sea scrolls and was once part of the Catholic religion.

Answer 4

The Apocrypha (I have read it) and the Dead Sea Scrolls (reading them) do back up what is in the modern Bible. The DSS are not all religious texts. Some are philosophies which have nothing to do with God.

Yes, some scripts were eliminated. The eliminated scripts were far more contradictory within themselves (I'm reading 'em now) than the Christian Bible.

Some Christians accept the Aprocrypha as the Word of God. Other's don't. Christians who really study, admit the DSS are a more accurate version of what is in the Bible today, where the DSS are Biblical texts.

Answer 5

There's no what if. They are more accurate. The Catholic Church however feels the need to keep them from the public for many various reasons.

From my understanding the Bible is the commoner's translation of the Dead Sea scrolls as well as other various texts and accounts made to go beyond the literal meaning of the biblical events that actually happened.

Whether Moses actually parted the Red Sea or if this is a metaphor to explain the same miracle does not matter. Religion is what you choose to believe and more importantly it’s the lesson you take from it which is what makes religion so wonderful.

Answer 6

It was the Emperor Constantine that instructed a group of clergy to determine which texts to include in one unified book, we know now as the bible. Constantine was a pagan and at that time Rome was becoming more christian all the time and Constantine converted to Christianity but it was said he played both sides of the coin as he was a politician,still harboring the ways of paganism too. The Lost books of the bible you will see which books were not left in, or tossed aside.In compiling the book into chapters and verses this is how the bible was formed,I believe in the 13th century.Later it was carried across Europe and then King James of England had the English version written and this is where the Thee and Thou came from and still used today.

Answer 7

At the time of the Council of Nicea (which was put together by the emperor Constantine), there were a large number of writings used by the many local churches in Asia Minor.

It is true that this council was part of a process to make all churches part of a universal (catholic) church. Church leaders in that time used their new scriptures to condemn the beliefs of other groups who considered themselves Christian.

Some of these groups are collectively called "gnostics" because they relied on personal knowledge more than written words for their spiritual growth. They claimed that neither Jesus nor his disciples wrote down his orignial teachings, and that the catholic scriptures were not authoritative.

We only knew of some of these groups' writings through quotes in early church leaders' writings against them (such as Origen, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus) until the 1940s, when a number of original documents from these groups were discovered in Egypt.

They are called the Nag Hammadi Library and you can find them easily on the Net.

If these writings are more "true" than the Nicean scriptures, then Jesus was WAY different from what we've been taught.

Answer 8

Consider this, maybe man threw out these books because God inspired them to do so. Many of the Apocryphal books, which are the writings that some have included in certain Bibles, were rejected by others because they do not bear evidence of having been inspired by God.

For example, The book of First Maccabees, while not in any way to be reckoned as an inspired book, contains information that is of historical interest. It gives an account of the struggle of the Jews for independence during the second century B.C.E. under the leadership of the priestly family of the Maccabees.

The rest of the Apocryphal books are full of myths and superstitions and full of errors. They were never referred to or quoted by Jesus or the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures.

Since God inspired the Bible, it is logical to reason that he would keep it free from these myths and superstitions so that his valuable truths could shine through?

Answer 9

That is pretty much what happened, ask yourself, if there were 12 Apostles, why only 4 gospels?

Also the KJV of the bible was transliterated from one of the most inaccurate of the many translations of the original texts.

Check out the book "Misquoting Jesus" and do some reading on the Gnostics.

Glad you have an open mind

Answer 10

The Bible wasn't put together that way -- it was the "New Testament."

The Dead Sea Scrolls are part of the original Bible. It proves the Hebrew Torahs of today are still accurate.

Learn Hebrew! You won't believe how much *more* you can find in the Torah.

Shalom

Answer 11

I have read the lost books of the Bible and the apocrapha.I also have asked myself these questions. I researched to find out how the books of the Bible were chosen to be canonized. There was an effort to bring pagan beliefs into line with Christian beliefs but that was more the efforts of Romans"THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH". There have always been efforts to control the masses through religion. That is why GOD tells us to study the word for ourselves.I understand the books were chosen according to the content that most represented CHRISTS teachings. I'm always amazed that anyone knows it all! Always seek the LORD for HIS answers.HE never will fail you.