How sure are you the bible is true when it was written, or compiled, only hundreds of years after jesus died?

Question

Does this hundred years lapse not create opportunity for people to glorify what jesus did? he might have preached goodness, but anyone will tell you a story changes with time, and we are talking about alot of time lapse here. And not to mention there are different variations of the testament, wonder how that works out.

Answer 1

Every religious book has some inconsistencies, but the aim of each religion is the betterment of society, of its adherents.
Instead of trying to find the loopholes, look and learn from the good things of that religion.
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life!

Answer 2

Some were written later than others, not all. The bible is the inspired word of God. It doesn't concern me in the least that it was written 12 or even 50 years after Jesus' resurrection. The different variations are easy to explain. Take for instance Matthew was a tax collector and Luke was a Physician. Surely their life styles were different and their up bringing. Naturally they would word things differently. Let's say you and I are standing in a parking lot and we both seen a car wreck. Surely you would tell details that I fail to mention or something you eye witness may seem more important to you than to me. And you could of seen something that I totally missed. The truth of it though is the bible is very much true.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The last book written, John's book of Revelation was written circa 100 so obviously, it's not "hundreds of years" after Christ. The compilation was completed and finalized in 393 AD at the Council of Hippo.

Since you mentioned Jesus then you must be refering to the new testament part of the Bible.

The Bible is not a book that suddenly came from nowhere. It had its origin in the early christian community who lived the christian life even before a single line was written in any book of the new testament. What this tells us is the Bible, as a book, can be verified by studying the history of the community where the Bible sprang from. These people were real people who were part of world history. Even if there was no Bible, there would still be christians since they preceded the Bible. It was christians who wrote the new testament books and later compiled and declared it Word of God. The foundation of the New Testament is the christian community and not the other way around.

Ignatius of Antioch
"Let no one do anything of concern to the Church without the bishop. Let that be considered a valid Eucharist which is celebrated by the bishop or by one whom he ordains [i.e., a presbyter]. Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church" (Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 110]).

The Martyrdom of Polycarp
"And of the elect, he was one indeed, the wonderful martyr Polycarp, who in our days was an apostolic and prophetic teacher, bishop of the Catholic Church in Smyrna. For every word which came forth from his mouth was fulfilled and will be fulfilled" (Martyrdom of Polycarp 16:2 [A.D. 155]).

If it can be shown that these early christians didn't exist then there's no way the Bible could be trusted. It wouldn't even exist for how can a book exist without a source?

Also, there were epistles of early christian bishops and Church Fathers, some of whom personally met the Apostles(Ignatius of Antioch was appointed bishop by Peter), whose works are still extant and some even refer to the epistles of the Apostles before they were compiled with other writings to form the new testament.

The Muratorian Canon
"Besides these [letters of Paul] there is one to Philemon, and one to Titus, and two to Timothy, in affection and love, but nevertheless regarded as holy in the Catholic Church, in the ordering of churchly discipline. There is also one [letter] to the Laodiceans and another to the Alexandrians, forged under the name of Paul, in regard to the heresy of Marcion, and there are several others which cannot be received by the Church, for it is not suitable that gall be mixed with honey. The epistle of Jude, indeed, and the two ascribed to John are received by the Catholic Church. . . . Of [the Gnostics] Arsinorus, also called Valentine, and of Miltiades, we receive nothing at all. Those also who wrote the new book of psalms for Marcion, together with Basilides, the founder of the Asian Cataphrygians [we do not accept]" (Muratorian fragment [A.D. 177]).

A study of early christianity would indicate that nothing in their beliefs and practices can found contradictory in the Bible. That is simply because the Bible is a reflection of their beliefs and christian life and again, not the other way around.

I'm not sure what you meant by "variations", though. You may have to clarify it.

Answer 5

Its the only collection of books with so many different authors, that refer to each other, reference each other, and make predictions that fullfill themselves more than a millenium later than when it was written. Also we know that there was a man called "Jesus" outside of the Bible, from writings from non-christians, Pliny the Younger and other figures during that time in Roman history. Whether you believe what he says is true or not, someone by that name existed. Do a search on "apologetics" on a search engine, and it answers some of your questions on reliability of the bible and etcetera.

Answer 6

Oh wow. Obviously you must have spent upwards of ZERO seconds researching this question.
It was written over a period of approx. 1600 years, with the huge majority being written BEFORE Christ lived. The prophet Daniel wrote about Christ's coming LONG BEFORE he actually did, as did other prophets in the Hebrew Aramaic Scriptures.
How did they know of Christ's coming when there were no newspapers, cell phones, internet, t.v.'s, or any other electronic garbage? Because they were writing for God as he told them to write.
66 books over 1600 years by about 40 different writers and it is COMPLETELY HARMONIOUS in it's information and HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!

PLEASE READ the following!

No other book took so long to complete as the Bible. In 1513 B.C.E. Moses began Bible writing. Other sacred writings were added to the inspired Scriptures until sometime after 443 B.C.E. when Nehemiah and Malachi completed their books. Then there was a gap in Bible writing for almost 500 years, until the apostle Matthew penned his historic account. Nearly 60 years later John, the last of the apostles, contributed his Gospel and three letters to complete the Bible’s canon. So, all together, a period of some 1,610 years was involved in producing the Bible. All the cowriters were Hebrews and, hence, part of that people “entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of God.”—Ro 3:2.

The Bible is not an unrelated assortment or collection of heterogeneous fragments from Jewish and Christian literature. Rather, it is an organizational book, highly unified and interconnected in its various segments, which indeed reflect the systematic orderliness of the Creator-Author himself. God’s dealings with Israel in giving them a comprehensive law code as well as regulations governing matters even down to small details of camp life—things that were later mirrored in the Davidic kingdom as well as in the congregational arrangement among first-century Christians—reflect and magnify this organizational aspect of the Bible

Answer 7

Actually, you are mistaken. You are confusing the establishment of the canon (agreement on which books and letters would form the Christian Bible) and complete copies of that Bible with the original letters.

The earlliest known complete COLLECTION of the canonized books of the Bible dates to the fourth century, roughly 350 AD. But INDIVIDUAL copies of the books and letters which were included in the canon date back to the early to mid second century -- placing them less than 100 years after Jesus's crucifixion.

The canon was not established until the Marcionite heresy in the second century AD, but establishing the canon was simply the church defining which of the original texts were and were not to be considered authoritative and declaring that these original texts alone must be considered authoritative, and only IN THEIR ENTIRETY. This was because Marcion had included a number of gnostic works in his own "canon" along with modified forms of what we today consider canonical works, in order to advance a false religion that held the existence of two "gods." To establish what was true teaching (in order to refute this heresy), the church had to establish what was the true foundational texts on which tthe teaching was based and in this they had to go back to earlier sources. Remember, there was no central church at this point in history to dictate such a definition to the masses -- the bishops and other leaders of the various local churches throughout the known world considered the issue, and AS A GROUP agreed which books and letters were and were not authoritative based on what they each knew themselves, from having known the people who knew the original authors and had passed on their original letters (this was after all ony a couple generations removed from the actual New Testament events).

Furthermore, we have fragmentary copies from the period only 30-60 years or so after Jesus's crucifixion, and these parts from the time period of the actual authors do not differ in any way from the preserved complete copies that were made later. Since there is no proof that these parts were altered over time (just the opposite in fact), there is no basis for assuming the rest of the material was. Remember, these are HOLY WRITINGS -- not something you mess around with lightly, especially if you believe in a God who will hold you accountable for your actions.

We also have copies of the various canonical texts from all over the known world of the time, dating to the second century AD, all of which are in essentially 100% agreement as to what the source leters said. This despite being spread over a tremendously vast, spread-out, and disconnected area and many languages. If there were doubt or disagreement as to what the original story was, these would be expected to be radically different from one another. The only real explanation of why they are so astonishingly identical, is that they all were copied from the same original source texts which by definition must have come before them -- probably decades before them in order to account for the widespread area and diverse cultures through which they are found. Any attempt by "the church" to destroy variations with which they disagreed would have only occurred in those areas where the church had uniform power and authority, which was essentially nowhere until Constaine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire in the early fourth century AD. Thus we would expect to see widely variant forms of the manuscripts right up until that time, then an ever decreasing number of variants throughout the time of Constatine's reign. What we see is the opposite -- no known significant variance in Christian writings and teachings even before Constantine regardless of how far-flung the locations nor how diverse the cultures.

Finally, there are contemporary references from Roman, Jewish, and other non-Christian historians that tell us what the original letters said and what the original teachings of the church of Jesus were. Again, they establish beyond any reasonable doubt that what today constitutes Christian orthodoxy is not in any way significantly different than that which was practiced in the first century.

Answer 8

Time means nothing to God. He can use people to write down His Word anytime. Just glad we have it now so as to have it comfort us during this final age of man.

There is only one Word. The Best, the very best translation we have from the original text is the 1611 King James Version Bible. Using this Bible with the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance will allow you to trace words back to the original Greek and Hebrew.

When the Father leads you to His Son Jesus Christ, He makes it possible for you to go to His Word for inspiration there to gain wisdom and understanding.><>

Answer 9

The Dead Sea Scrolls found in Ein Gedi in the last century are virtually identical to old testament writtings which predate Jesus on Earth.

Verse 21, below

Answer 10

the NT was written about 50 years after Jesus died. we dont have an autograph for the OT but we do for the NT. the story hasn't changed. u should just do more in depth studying on the compilation of the bible

Answer 11

The Old Testament was written thousands of years before Jesus. The new testament was written and collected starting several years after the physical death of Jesus. Mostly in the form of letters written by the apostles from their memory of what Jesus was supposed to have said and done and their interpretation of them.