Who do you believe wrote the Bible?

Answer 1

1 Thimothy 3:
16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Answer 2

By and large the bible came from living word stories that were passed from generation to generation. After some time the Jewish people began writing some of these stories down in Hebrew on scrolls of parchment. Not all the stories were written down and there was a controversey between the Pharisees and the Suddycees as to whether the written bible alone or the written bible and the verbal stories that were not written should make up the bible.

In 3 BC the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek.

After Jesus was Crucified the disciples either wrote or had someone write their testiments down in Greek.

Peter, later Paul and John travelled about the Mediteranian area and started conclaves of "churches" and wrote letters to these churches that were also eventually incorporated in the bible used by the Church establised around 3 AD by Constantine in Turkey.

The collection of Greek Tanakh (Jewish version) became the Old Testiment and the collection of modern Greek writings of Peter, Paul, Mark, Matthews, John and other became the New Testiment.

This collection of "books" is different from the Bible many use today, although many Orthodox Religioins still use a translation of this original bible.

Jewish scholars tried to rectify their Tanakh in the 14th century by comparing texts.

Between 1200 and 1500 Scholars in France, Whales, England and Germany began also comparing Christan texts, sometimes to the dsipleaure of the Catholic Church which didn't want thier versin tinkered with.

Finally in 1600 King James of England commissioned a completely new Bible that was to be based on all the existing English texts and probably some foreign texts. This became the King James Bible, which was further revised with books deleted 10 years later. That new REvision is the basis for the Current Holy Bible used by many.

Currently the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the oldest known remants of the Tanakh and many new Greek Codec fragments are only being studied. One Codec, for example, now claims that the number of the beast is 616 not 666.

There are other versions of the Bible, including the official Catholic Text which was revised between 1500 and 1700. The Standard Edition Bible. The NIV Bible, the Gudieon Bible. The Living Bible and there are also bibles with the King James text on the left side and the original Greek and Greek translations on the right side. It has been recently pointed out that, for example, the term: MYSTERY BABYLON should NOT be CAPITALIZED as the original Greek uses a different idium and therefore the translator may have made a goof and it should really read: mystery Babylon.

This sheds a whole new light on the concept and could indicate that it is not a new or undsciovered Babylon, but an existing Babyon, possibly one of the original Babylons (there were several).

Some of the books removed from the Original King James Bible included detailed texts opposing Astrology, fortune telling, etc. It is possible that the Royals of the Court, who often made use of Astrologers, or the Royal Astroloers took offense to this. It is also possible that it was removed because of the increasing Witch hunts and Witch burnings in England that these were removed. They may also have felt they were redundant or possibly determined from Bible readings that they were added books and not truly a part of previous Bibles.

The Bible, therefore, has basically been RE-WRITTEN. By man, usually through political edicts and to please the powers the be.

This seems to be the case in both Jewish and Christian writings.

By and large, however, the texts conform to the jist of what has been documented as far back as maybe 30 BC.

Answer 3

I believe the Bible is the God's inspired word given Moses.
The Lord gave Moses the Torah known as the first five books from Genesis to Deuteronomy. The prophets wo came afterward were inspired by God to write the remaining text. By the way God used his chosen people, the Jews to write the Bible.

Answer 4

The following is from
http://www.biblesociety.ca/about_bible/many_writers/index.html

The Bible is a compilation of works by more than 40 authors, written during a period of about 1,600 years, yet it is unified in spirit, outlook and inspiration.

The earliest parts of the Bible were written in approximately 1500 B.C.; the most recent around A.D.100

The original languages of the Bible were Hebrew (Old Testament), Aramaic (a few scattered parts of the Old Testament), and Koine Greek (New Testament).
The word Bible is derived from a Greek word (biblos) referring to papyrus (in later Latin, biblia), and the word Testament from a Latin word (testari) meaning to witness.
At key points in early church history, church leaders met and tested the writings to determine which should be considered truly authoritative.
These books came to be called canonical, from the Greek word for a measuring stick (kanon); they later became what we today know as the Bible.
For most Protestants the core of the Bible is composed of 66 books (39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament) which they view as the complete Bible.
Roman Catholics include eight additional books as part of the Bible. These eight are collectively known as the Apocrypha or the Deuterocanonical Books.
Orthodox churches have the largest canon of all, which varies as well from group to group of Orthodox believers.

Answer 5

Many people actually wrote the Bible, but they were all inspired by God with the words to use.

Answer 6

We know for a fact that humans wrote it, quite a few. What is in dispute is whether or not God dictated it.

Frankly I don't think it matters. While some think the bible is fact, most experts know it is a combination of fact, fable and parable.

It really doesn't matter who wrote it or if it is fact. It's value to humanity is FACT and there is no other book as widely read or treasured.

Answer 7

Many authors wrote the Bible over generations of people. It was compiled and translated into Latin (the language of the day) by the Church in the early 400's.

Answer 8

no one person. The book seems to be a collection of writings by different persons witnessing their accounts of what was happening at the time and place they were living in. There are many books ,many accounts ,that were not included in the king james version. Remember what the word version means. The lost books of the bible,the cave of treasures,the book of enoch may prove interesting reading.

Answer 9

Many different men over a period of many years. They were God inspired, so that is where the correlation of God's inspiration comes into being and why the Bible is so inter-related.

Answer 10

"Believe" doesn't even enter into the equation. Human beings wrote tthe bible. End of conversation.

Now, if you want to argue whether the human who wrote it were taking dictation from the biblegod, that's another issue entirely....