Who wrote the Bible? God or man?

Question

Please give me reasons to support your theory.

Here are mine:
God worte the Bile because why would man write a book about their own failures
.....because all the writers lift up God and draw the readers attention to hIm
......Becaus man cites His source (2 tim 3: 16) Man would not do this.

These are just a few of my thoughts. Now physically, man did write the bile. But just as a stenographer only writes what happens in the courtroom, man has done the same when it comes to God.

What do you think?

Answer 1

yes physically man wrote the bible(more than one man at that). inspired and guided by god. you got it pretty much down to a fine t mate. nice rational thinking, god bless.

Answer 2

"God worte the Bile because why would man write a book about their own failures" Aside from your sparse grammatical and typographical errors, I would say that you've overlooked the slight chance that another example of man writing a book about his own failures exists that you have not read. I know I shouldn't have done it but I once read a girl's diary to see what she thought about me and it contained, in written form, some of her mistakes. I also read a few of the chapters of my high school, middle school, and elementary school history books and they all admitted to humanity's mistakes.

As for why we'd write down our failures I am having some difficulty coming up with an answer. My guess is that it's to help us remember our mistakes so we don't make them again. Like when an engineer screws something up and kills dozens of people. We don't pretend it didn't happen right? We figure out what went wrong and write it down. I know it's a failure and the guy who messed up might not want it written down, but well someone did sadly.

ugh ur question is too long, i'll leave it at that

Answer 3

When you read Acts chapters 6 through 7 you read about the Apostle called Stephen. In verse 15 of chapter 6:

15 All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

His face was like the face of an angel. In the next chapter - Stephen recites the history of his people without error. How do we know there was no error - he was in front of his accusers - if he got 1 fact incorrect - they would have told him.

He was able to recite the history perfectly because he was filled with the Holy Spirit - just as the men who wrote the Bible.

So - yes man wrote the Bible but they were instructed by God.

Answer 4

New Testament: I think Jesus came, had a direct experience of unconditional love (god) and then wanted to tell everyone the good news. People back then (like today) both didn't understand it and/or didn't want it to be this way (because unconditional love means no specianess, no striving for something, no individuality). So ... they engaged in unconsciously changing the message or misinterpreting it; the result was the most popular interpretation was selected and made it into the 4 gospels (misinterpreted according to what people wanted it to be -- exactly the dynamic jesus tries to teach us via the 'good' son in the prodigal son parable where he doesn't understand god and wants god to be as he thinks he should be). Then other interpretations were dismissed, with various theologians defining what was seen as heresy (e.g. the gnostic interpretations -- now seen in the Nag Hammadhi scriptures unearthed in the early part of last century -- were written against as heresy). Paul's stuff (his letters to the various early christian communities) made it into the New Testament because he was a strong, dynamic missionary and leader. I think Jesus knew that his message would be misunderstood and changed and so I think that his parables suffered the least change.

Answer 5

Men did write the Bible, but only what God directed them to write and everything written, would have been approved by him.
2 Timothy 3:16--"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
Exodus 31:18--"When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God."
2 Peter 1:21--"for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy spirit."

Answer 6

The Bible is concept via potential of many to be the notice of God. it relatively is when you consider that the law show a achieveable approach to stay for the human beings who needed those law. If I knew hassle-free approaches to coach every person what to do, and my theory worked to lead them to prosper and stay to tell the story among different peoples, i'd call it the notice of God, and be believed. The instruction manual of Mormon is an occasion of a similar concept and so are an outstanding variety of option religious writings of different religions and different peoples. You obtained a project with that?

Answer 7

I understand your belief. I respect your right to believe that way.
Myself, I believe that man wrote the Bible.
1. God, the Father has not visited humanity personally
2. accept thru Jesus Christ He did not write the Bible by the books, own declaration.
3. The books of the Bible come in 2 time periods.A) Old Testament comes from before Christ's time B) New Testament comes after His time.
4. New Testament authors wrote the books by way of letters to specific regions. They were encouragements and rebukes and visions as seen thru their eyes, interpreting what they believe Christ said.
5. They were written many decade after Christ's death leaving Him no room to correct any error.
6. What wound up in the Bible as we know it today was determined by The Jewish and Catholic faiths hundreds of years after they were written.
7. They accepted and rejected many possible scriptures, deciding on their own, what should and shouldn't be accepted. They were Men.

Answer 8

My opinion is that men and women have religious experiences. From time to time, some people write down their religious experiences. The main record of the religious experiences of the ancient Israelites is the Hebrew Bible. Likewise the New Testament is the main record of the religious experiences of the early Christians.

Answer 9

While it is true that the books of the Old Testament begin with an account of the creation of the world, we must bear in mind that the narratives dealing with such topics as the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the Great Flood, and other events related in the Book of Genesis were never intended to be regarded as an accurate historical account of the entire world process. None of these accounts appeared in written form until after the Hebrews had settled in the land of Canaan, west of the Jordan River, which did not take place prior to the ninth century B.C. Obviously, the stories that one finds in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis, as well as those that have to do with the activities of the patriarchs, who were believed to have lived before the time of the Exodus from Egypt, were not written by eyewitnesses of the events that were recorded. Neither were they written by people who lived during the times about which they wrote. Not until after the men who eventually wrote the narratives had reflected on the events connected with the history of their people was any attempt made to record these events or to set forth their meanings. When this recording was done, the interpretations necessarily reflected the perspective from which they were written.

The beginnings of Hebrew history are obscure and cannot be known with certainty. It is generally believed that the people from whom the Old Testament eventually emerged came from a group of Semitic tribes known as the Habiru. These tribes inhabited the region referred to as the Fertile Crescent, a strip of land lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and stretching southward for some distance in the direction of Egypt and the Nile River. They are known to have moved about in this territory as early as 2000 B.C. Eventually, some of these tribes migrated to Egypt and lived there for some time, probably for three or four centuries. Apparently, they were initially welcomed by the Egyptians, for the Hebrew colony grew and prospered. But their numbers increased to the extent that the Egyptians became alarmed lest their own security become endangered. An Egyptian pharaoh, in order to protect his people against any further advances on the part of the Hebrews, inaugurated a program of harsh measures toward the newcomers, forcing them into a condition of servitude and slavery. This situation is referred to in the Old Testament as the period of Egyptian bondage. In connection with this period of oppression, we first learn of Moses and his role in bringing about the deliverance of his people. Under his guidance and leadership, the Hebrews were able to leave the land of Egypt—the Exodus—and journey to new territory, where they were to make their home.

Answer 10

God inspired the writers of the Bible.

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: