who made the decisions as to what books would go into the first bible and what books were left out and why
2006-08-23 13:37:08 · 4 answers · asked by diamond c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To answer this question properly would take much to much space. I will gladly email you with a long email if you would like this answered in detail. I don't know how to break the answer down without losing the importance of it as a whole. Please email me if you would like me to do that for you. My information will come from The Holman Bible Dictionary.
By the way, I love your question as it made me stop and study to learn the answer.
God Bless you as you seek to know the truth.
2006-08-23 13:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by Noor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King James - That's why it's called the King James Bible. Actually, he appointed a group of guys to do that, strictly for political reasons. I mean, who wouldn't want to be the guy that created the Bible? Who's going to tell the King he's wrong? Just look what happened when they told Henry that - in comes the Church of England.
Okay, that was being a little flippant. There have been many revisions as to which books should be in the Bible throughout history, King James' effort being only one. See wikipedia for more info.
2006-08-23 20:43:10 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
St. Jerome was before the ...
...King James version which is the Church of England translation brought to America and where it is most popularly recognized as THE BIBLE
I believe that this was before the Christian(catholic at the time) Jewish and Islamic divisions happened...
Pope Damasus I assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. He commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin. This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official bible. The Douay-Rheims New Testament, a direct translation of the Latin Vulgate, was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The Douay-Rheims Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was published in 1611. More recently, the New American Bible was first published in 1970 and the New International Version was published in stages between 1973 and 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jerome
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2006-08-23 21:08:12 · answer #3 · answered by DM 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" meaning it (Christ, the truth, etc) existed always. When I received the Holy Spirit, it was a moment of clarity to see that it was always there.
Books that were "left out" are the ones lacking truth.
2006-08-23 20:42:30 · answer #4 · answered by hmmph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋