How was the bible found? (Christians & catholics only, pls)?

Question

Where & when did they find it? Serious answers only please. ;)

Answer 1

THE Bible was never lost! Some individual Bibles were left around by those who owned them in the past, and those are constantly being recovered by researchers and archaeologists.

The Bible is made up of two major sections: the Old Testament (OT) and the New Testament (NT). The OT is made up of several books of writings by various saints, such as Moses, Samuel, King David, King Solomon, etc. It has been in the care of the Jews, who preserved it carefully throughout the centuries.

The NT is made up of a collection of writings and letters written by the disciples of Jesus Christ. These too were preserved for us by Christians throughout the centuries (unfortunately, not as carefully as the Jews).

And though there have been periods, like the Dark Ages, where few people owned or could read the Bible, the Bible has never been lost to mankind. In fact, there are no ancient books preserved to this day as well as the Bible (none any where even close); the Bible is EXTREEMLY well preserved.

Answer 2

The bible is a compilation of books, espistles, letters, that were put together over a long period of time and the canon was "closed" several hundred years ago.

The Old Testament of course is the "Torah", the Jewish books of Moses. The New Testament contains books and letters written by the apostles that directly knew the Lord, others that knew of Him, and very importantly, the apostle Paul, called by Jesus Christ when He was transformed on the road to Damascus. All of these writings were kept by various groups of believers, and incorporated along with the Old Testament writings, as copies were made and distributed to the churches. That's why you hear of other "books"...that are NOT in the bible. The books that comprise our bible are the ones considered both authentic and inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Answer 3

Among the major books of religion, the Bible is one of the very oldest. Its first parts were written some 3,500 years ago. This book was completed in 98 C.E.* Though some 40 men were its writers over a period of 1,600 years, the Bible is a harmonious body of writings. That is so because its real Author is God.

The Bible is the most widely circulated and translated book in all history. Each year, some 60 million copies of the entire Bible or portions of it are distributed. The complete Bible or parts of it have been translated into more than 2,300 languages and dialects. Over 90 percent of the human family have access to the Bible, or at least part of it, in their native language. This book has transcended national boundaries, racial divisions, and ethnic barriers.

Answer 4

It wasn't found. A great article on the canon of scripture can be found at wikipedia.org.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon

Basically, for Jews, it was compiled over thousands of years and by consensus of the community particular books from time to time seemed to resonate as the word of God. These books came to be included. Jews also include an oral Torah not included by Christians because it was oral not written.

For Christians, the standard until the Protestant Reformation was to accept whatever the Apostle's accepted from the Old Testament, which basically is the Septuagint or the Catholic Old Testament (Jesus and Paul both quote from the parts of the Catholic Old Testament that Protestant's reject). For the New Testament, three standards were used: apostolic origin, liturgical use and conformance with tradition. Pope Innocent in 405 promulgated the current list of books following synods at Hippo Regius, Rome, Carthage and Lyodicea. Until Luther that was the list. None of the books were found, they were long part of the community. For Christians, except Lutherans, it rests on Papal authority alone which books were included.

Luther realized that if he rejected papal authority then he rejected the bible as well. So, Luther started the process of picking books over again. There are a group of books called the protocanonicals, such as Genesis or Luke and a second group called the deuterocanonicals. Early Christians were in agreement about the protocanonicals but spent time debating the deuterocanonicals.

The deuterocanonicals include such books as 1&2 Maccabees, 2 John, James Jude and Revelations. Luther rejected the deuterocanonicals out of the old testament since the Jews rejected them. What Luther did not realize was that they rejected them as an attack on Christianity. They were originally written in Greek by Jews during the diaspora and Hellenic period. God can't speak Greek. Therefore any scripture written in Greek is false. Hebrew is God's Holy Tongue. Luther also kicked out James, Jude and Revelations as false books. He then proclaimed scripture alone was true, but it was his scripture not Catholic scripture which he declared true. As such, anything contradicting Catholic teaching not supported in his scriptures was the basis of his belief. The excluded books support Catholic belief and often rejected Luther's beliefs.

Most protestants don't realize what really happened and think Catholics are anti-scripture. In fact, almost every single word of Catholic services come directly out of scripture. Scripture is part of Catholic tradition, where tradition means that which was handed on by the apostles. In addition, tradition includes art (Luke painted), stories, teachings, services and beliefs.

Answer 5

The early Christians (Catholics) held many writings to be sacred. It was at the councils of Hippo and Carthage, under Pope Saint Siricius, in the late fourth century that the church determined which writings were to be reverenced as inspired and which were not. They included for the old testament, the Greek Septuagint, the version used (and often quoted) by Jesus and the apostles.

Answer 6

They did not FIND the Bible. It is a collection of several different books written during the time of Jesus Christ. Some books made it into the final cut, other books were taken out. Even more books were found later.

Answer 7

Here's a link that will tell you about the original NT documents--the Dead Sea Scrolls.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/

But the Bible has been copied and translated over and over since it was first written--more original copies of the Bible exist than copies of Homer's "Illiad".

Answer 8

well here is somewhat of an answer BUT you would have to do research on the Gnostic Gospels, the Nicene meeting in the 4th century AD, the decision as to what gospels where placed in the new testement

Answer 9

People inspired by God wrote the Bible. They wrote it according to what God told them to write. They did not find it you ignorant fool.

Answer 10

A bunch of sunfried arabs who were tripping some crazy **** made it.