for the first few hundred years, before the bible was written, it must have been passed by word of mouth?
chinese whispers???
2006-10-25 00:40:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and the new testement?
2006-10-25 00:46:52 · update #1
yes indeed
2006-10-25 00:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by timone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the Yi Jing or I Ching (depending on phonetic conversion) was written way before the original books of the bible.
2006-10-28 11:19:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Luke did some detective work and investigated the life of Christ and the events of the early church for Luke & Acts. Paul's letters were written for him for circulation to the churches at that time. Same goes for the other letters. John's gospel was eyewitness testimony.
2006-10-25 04:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a copy of 'why trust the bible' by amy orr-ewing, she went to a posh university and is very intelligent and it's a great book
2006-10-28 11:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History literally means HIS STORY. Then decades later, some other chap comes along and tells us what he was really saying, but in HIS words!!!
2006-10-25 00:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was written down, in the case of the Old Testament by Jewish scribes, in the case of the New Testament by Jesus' followers.
2006-10-25 00:45:50 · answer #6 · answered by trebor88 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes i would imagine so
as with all holy books from different religions, where there is probable alot of truth in them we still ony have the account of the person that wrote it down.
2006-10-25 00:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by ♥gigi♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Follwed by some subjective editing.
2006-10-25 00:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It started off as 'There was this Big Bang...' and now we have millions of people who believe in a God.
2006-10-25 00:47:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I actually thought that same thing myself yesterday.
2006-10-25 00:52:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋