Who wrote the Bible?

Question

As with the Old Testament, we just don't know who wrote most of the New Testament. Tradition has assigned the Gospels and most of the Epistles to certain authors, all of whom were important figures in Jesus' life or the early days of the faith. It was important for the early church to believe the authors wrote the works attributed to them, since their eminence lent the writings authority. But since we don't have the original signatures, none can be verified except through textual clues.
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Answer 1

The Bible is the inspired word of God - whatever is written in it is true becuase God can not lie. If there was a signature than that person would be the one who authored the text. The author of the Bible is God - if a signature is required look at everything - all thing have the "fingerprints" of God on them

Answer 2

The Bible was written by forty (40) men under the direction of the Author of the Bble - Jehovah God.

The Bible itself testifies to this when it says the following:

1 Timothy 3 vs 16,17:

16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

2 Peter 1 vs 20,21:

20 For YOU know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.

So, the men who wrote the Bible did that under the influence of God's holy spirit. They wrote Jehovah God's thoughts not their own. That is why the Bible contains so much wise counsel and direction for daily living.

If you would like to learn more about the Bible, I recommend that you speak with jehovah's Witnesses in your area about it.

Cheers and have a nice time

Answer 3

Paul wrote a lot of it (new testiment).. As muslims we believe Moses and Jesus.. brought true messages of Gods divine laws to their respective peoples.. But since no one wrote down those laws during their actual walk here on earth, the messages got a little distorted with time as do all tales or stories and by the time The Church elders in Rome decided to compile what we call the bible today, there were hundreds of books.. They had to vote which ones were most relevant to what their religious ideals were at the time.. I myself feel there might have been other books left out that would have been just as good.. Who gave those elders the divine knowledge to choose?.. Thats why as muslims we believe the message of the Quran that Mohammed brought was the actual same message as all prophets.. Only that Mohammed was lucky enough to have someone write it down during his time here... Thats why you see similarities cause its all the same message.. We as muslims are taught to respect all prophets of old..

Answer 4

God inspired men to write the bible for him. In some cases he told them what to say and in others it was from personal experience. see 2 Timothy 2:16 all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. and also 2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.(spirit)...good luck :-)

Answer 5

the KJV bible was written by King James's Scribes in 1611. it was scribed from the Septuagint that was the only true bible till that time. many others attempted to write a bible but it was not accepted by God fearing people. as far as the actual books.
Gospel's- self titled
Acts,Romans1-2Corinthians,Galatians,Ephesians,Philippians,Colossians,Thessalonians,1-2-3Timothy,Titus,Philemon,Hebrews all were by Paul
James-self title
Peter-self title
1-2-3John-self title
Jude-self title
Revelation-John
most non-KJV bibles are copyrighted which means they are somebody else words. God is the only one who could copyright the bible because none of the people who actually wrote it, claimed it.

Answer 6

Mosses wrote part of the old testament, followed by David and Abraham. (GOD told them what to write for us)
The new Testament was written by Matthew , Mark, Luke, John and JESUS told them what they should write. The rest of the New Testament was written By Paul, Peter, James, Jude, and Revelations by John. John, wrote this when he was seeing into the future of what Jesus would do to the good and evil people.

Answer 7

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness... 2 Tim.3:15, 16

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, make wise the simple. Psalm 19:7

Answer 8

The Bible was written by men of God as the Holy Spirit inspired them to write. May God Bless

Answer 9

The Bible was authored by the Holy Spirit who wrote through about 40 different men over a period of around 1400 years.

Old Testament
How do we know the Bible has been kept in tact for over 2,000 years of copying? Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, our earliest Hebrew copy of the Old Testament was the Masoretic text, dating around 800 A.D. The Dead Sea Scrolls date to the time of Jesus and were copied by the Qumran community, a Jewish sect living around the Dead Sea. We also have the Septuagint which is a Greek translation of the Old Testament dating in the second century B.C. When we compare these texts which have an 800-1000 years gap between them we are amazed that 95% of the texts are identical with only minor variations and a few discrepancies.

New Testament
In considering the New Testament we have tens of thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament in part or in whole, dating from the second century A.D. to the late fifteenth century, when the printing press was invented. These manuscripts have been found in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, making collusion unlikely. The oldest manuscript, the John Rylands manuscript, has been dated to 125 A.D. and was found in Egypt, some distance from where the New Testament was originally composed in Asia Minor). Many early Christian papyri, discovered in 1935, have been dated to 150 A.D., and include the four gospels. The Papyrus Bodmer II, discovered in 1956, has been dated to 200 A.D., and contains 14 chapters and portions of the last seven chapters of the gospel of John. The Chester Beatty biblical papyri, discovered in 1931, has been dated to 200-250 A.D. and contains the Gospels, Acts, Paul's Epistles, and Revelation. The number of manuscripts is extensive compared to other ancient historical writings, such as Caesar's "Gallic Wars" (10 Greek manuscripts, the earliest 950 years after the original), the "Annals" of Tacitus (2 manuscripts, the earliest 950 years after the original), Livy (20 manuscripts, the earliest 350 years after the original), and Plato (7 manuscripts).

Thousands of early Christian writings and lexionaries (first and second century) cite verses from the New Testament. In fact, it is nearly possible to put together the entire New Testament just from early Christian writings. For example, the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (dated 95 A.D.) cites verses from the Gospels, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Titus, Hebrews, and 1 Peter. The letters of Ignatius (dated 115 A.D.) were written to several churches in Asia Minor and cites verses from Matthew, John, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus. These letters indicate that the entire New Testament was written in the first century A.D. In addition, there is internal evidence for a first century date for the writing of the New Testament. The book of Acts ends abruptly with Paul in prison, awaiting trial (Acts 28:30-31 (1)). It is likely that Luke wrote Acts during this time, before Paul finally appeared before Nero. This would be about 62-63 A.D., meaning that Acts and Luke were written within thirty years of ministry and death of Jesus. Another internal evidence is that there is no mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Although Matthew, Mark and Luke record Jesus' prophecy that the temple and city would be destroyed within that generation (Matthew 24:1-2 (2),Mark 13:1-2 (3), Luke 21:5-9,20-24,32(4)), no New Testament book refers to this event as having happened. If they had been written after 70 A.D., it is likely that letters written after 70 A.D. would have mentioned the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy. As stated by Nelson Glueck, former president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and renowned Jewish archaeologist, "In my opinion, every book of the New Testament was written between the forties and eighties of the first century A.D."

With all of the massive manuscript evidence you would think there would be massive discrepancies - just the opposite is true. New Testament manuscripts agree in 99.5% of the text (compared to only 95% for the Iliad). Most of the discrepancies are in spelling and word order. A few words have been changed or added. There are two passages that are disputed but no discrepancy is of any doctrinal significance (i.e., none would alter basic Christian doctrine). Most Bibles include the options as footnotes when there are discrepancies. How could there be such accuracy over a period of 1,400 years of copying? Two reasons: The scribes that did the copying had meticulous methods for checking their copies for errors. 2) The Holy Spirit made sure we would have an accurate copy of God's word so we would not be deceived. The Mormons, theological liberals as well as other cults and false religions such as Islam that claim the Bible has been tampered with are completely proven false by the extensive, historical manuscript evidence.

Answer 10

There are more than 2,000 versions of bibles in this world. Every body is writing bible to earn throgh copy rights.
There is ONLY ONE Quran send by ONE Allah.
In Quran Allah has cursed those people who write the book of God with their own hands and earn money. I could not understand why all people are editing the book of Lord.
It is advisable to read One Quran instead of 2,000 version and edition of bibles.