The bible was created by committees of men....?

Question

Nearly every version was (read your history)

Now, these committees decided what religious writings were "true" words of god and which weren't "true". Many were included. Many were excluded.


It is a logical necessity that anyone who believes that "the bible" is the literal, inerrent word of god must therefore by extension believe that these committees of men were infallible.

Otherwise they could have "oopsy!" included the gospel of Mark as a mistake, and should have instead included the 3rd Letter of Bubba to the Tenesseans.



for those who believe in a literal, inerrent bible...

Did you ever realize that you are believing by extension in the infallibility of committees of men?

Think about it.

Answer 1

You are right, and the bible like any book is a subjective account of the writer or writers. Considering they had little scientific knowledge at the time, anything that went beyond their understanding was considered a miracle. As is supernatural phenomena today, no doubt one day there will be an explanation for those occurrences and hence they will no longer be seen as supernatural or paranormal.

Answer 2

Well looks like a few ruffled feathers.. good starts people thinking.

One merely has to do a web search to find this information out and yet they scream for sources. If you type in New International Version & Bible into a google search you will get a ton of hits and many include how it came about. The NIV Bible was created by theologians from 20 different denominations including Anglicans, Baptists, Evangelicals, Methodists, Lutherans and so on between the years 1965-1978 so that right there tells you it is done by committee (yes I know, I know it's not the vaulted KJV.. supposedly everything else is garbage....)

Now I know I highly doubt a deity decided to come down, sit at the table and say yes this is right and no this isn't so people you are relying on subjecture.. what a group of humans think is the word of God and what you should think is t he word of God. You yourself could say the same thing by saying.. this is what I think God meant ... and it would be no better or worse than those fallible humans who put the book together.

Answer 3

I stated this (basically) in an answer once. I got an email from some girl who told me that the whole bible was in fact inspired by God and therefor it was a holy book that God had a hand in writing.

I really don't get this. If I wrote a book, and I prayed everyday, couldn't I say that God inspired my book? Would it be the same as the bible in that respect? How does being an inspiration negate the fact that the book was penned by man? How do people know that God wanted man to write these things? Why place so much faith on man? This whole thing bugs me to no end.

The translations are another thing that make me laugh about the bible. Words have changed meaning and been inserted and excluded over the years. God has not come down and redrafted the bible recently so how can people take the words so literally?

Answer 4

No, the bible is the inspired word of God. Yes it is true that the Romans (hand picked) the books of the bible. The ones that were not chosen though, still had writings about God. Maybe God had a hand in all those books coming together. For mere men to put all those books together, they did a heck of a job, don't you think? From Genesis all the way to revelations the bible harmonizes together. And one thing it is very clear on is the one true God, his love and his kingdom. Stupid men,how did they get so smart to know how to make the bible harmonize like that. Might as well face the truth, the bible is truth and God is real. Have a nice day.

Answer 5

Good point, I believe that the bible is true and the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly. The bible also talks about a falling away from the truth after Christ was crucified and resurrected and ascended into heaven. It makes sense that some of the pure and simple truths where lost. The fact that there are so many churches is evidence that some truths have been lost. Also the people rejected the apostles and prophets.
I believe that God is always willing to restore the truth when he feels that his people are ready to hear it.

Answer 6

The people who believe the KJ version of the Bible to be true believe that the Holy Spirit was present at these committees and guided the minds of those present.

I find that a fallacy because that would indicate that there were inaccuracies in the original versions of the text.

They can't have it both ways. If that situation is true, then at some point the Bible has been inaccurate, and to me God would never want words hidden from His believers. He gave us free will - that would, by definition, mean that we would have free will assuming all facts and opinions were in evidence. Which by having these councils etc...it wouldn't be.

Answer 7

I can understand what your saying but your talking about the Cathloic bible that the Cathloic Priest put together! There is another bible that has more detail and more for the mind to know! o you really should do your reshearch before you make an assumption about a part in history! The other bible that i'm talking about was put together in Ethiopia buy the Ethiopian Priests before the bible itself was put together. The fact is that most of the bibles that Americans read is the bible from the Catholic denomination! i would like to read from both the Ethiopian version and the other! There is alot missing in the traditional bible and there are alot more questions answered in the Ethiopian! I like to do research with anything i put myself into! Just think about that for a bit!

Answer 8

The Bible was not created by committees of men. Individual books were written by individual people. Committees of men selected which books to include, but they did not write them. These committees you are referring to did what is known as "editing."

Do you think that it is possible for God to oversee the process, to guide the committees in selecting which manuscripts to include?

Whichever way you slice it, there is testimony that Christ lived, performed miracles, and died on the cross. Such testimony--i.e., personal witness--is recorded in the Bible. Also included are documents from Paul, whose charge it was to establish Christ's church in different places.

I don't believe the men were infallible. I believe the men were guided by God. Many fallible sinners have been guided by God to do things that on their own power they would otherwise be incapable of.

Tennessee didn't exist in the first century A.D. But I'm sure George W. would give you a hearty thumbs-up you for thinking so.

Answer 9

You'll get a lot of really good long answers on this one, but you're right. The Dead Sea scrolls are an excellent example of other writings from the time that didn't make the cut. Once again, people think they know things when they only have part of the truth. Keep an open mind and listen to the spirit. That is how we learn.

Answer 10

Possibly, or could the Bible not just be the work of simple minds?

In some remote jungles of the world, you will find tribes that have rarely (if ever) seen a human being from a different race. They’ve never seen technology. Things like radios, cameras, mobile phones, guns, aeroplanes would be mind boggling to them, so much so, they would probably think you were from out of this world.

There’s a good chance such people would think of you as some type of God, or others would be threatened by your presence, string you up, and stick spears into you until you were dead. Fortunately for you, you may not be dead, and others in your exploration group could revive you, heal you, and within 3 days you’re on your way again.

Years later, how do you think those simple minded tribes will explain what happened, and what will their story sound like in 2000 years time? What do you think really happened 2000 years ago? Could the Bible not just be the work of simple minds?

A lot of unanswered questions for sure, but then the Bible raises more questions than it resolves. The Bible is highly unlikely to reflect much of the truth about what happened so many years ago.