Who compiled and edited the 1st Bible?
2006-12-10 15:40:33 · 23 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Meant the OT.
2006-12-10 16:00:22 · update #1
Wiki the second council of Nicea. Let me get it for ya....
There ya go! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea
That pretty much decided what you've got with your KJV. Decided in 787.
2006-12-10 15:42:42 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was no intent by the early Christians "to write a Bible". The Gospels and Epistles were copied and sent around the whole of the Mediterranean Sea to the early church centers. It was sometime in the 4th Century that the present New Testament "books" were agreed upon along with the the Old Testament which had been around for quite a while.
In the time before that there was much discussion among the churches about which should be included because some books written after the First Century began to appear with false pretences of being from apostles and disciples who already died .
2006-12-10 16:42:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is the work of the worlds best cult leader. I believe in God, but also in evolution. I just can't swallow the story about a virgin parent, a lone couple responsible for populating a planet or that God could let religion get so evil.
2006-12-10 15:55:36 · answer #3 · answered by MaxPower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The early church established the canonicity of the Bible. Athanasius (296-373), bishop of Alexandria, in his annual Easter letter to the churches in his diocese in 367 included a list of the books he considered Scripture. He seems to have been among the first to apply the term “canonical” to the exact same 27 books of the New Testament that we have.
For more info, look here: http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1518&cuTopic_topicID=39&cuItem_itemID=13407
2006-12-10 15:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by wnk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God's Holy spirit inspired the writing of the bible, inspired men to put its books together and it inspired men to continue to circulate it. God did all this, but the devil has also used people to change the bible and remove some truths and insert some lies into some of them. In order to get a good translation you have to use one that was translated from the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts......KECK
2006-12-10 15:49:32 · answer #5 · answered by Tneciter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Roman Catholic Church guarded the texts and those that bore the most similarity and were earliest were used. These bear the ability to agree with one another, a basic test as to the historical accuracy of the works.
2006-12-10 15:45:15 · answer #6 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saint Jerome
2006-12-10 15:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by tjdepere2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different people decided to include different books in the bible. The Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, each include different books in what they call the bible.
2006-12-10 15:51:30 · answer #8 · answered by barx613 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bishops from all over the Roman world were gathered in Nicea to codify the texts and letters that made up the new testament.
these were joined with the Jewish texts to form the bible.
God inspired these people to include these texts because they were consistent with the teachings of Jesus and His Apostels.
2006-12-10 15:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As we now know it, about 1300-1400 AD.
The parchment pecies or scrolls that were accepted / rejected that was about 325 AD
Council of Nicea
2006-12-10 17:47:29 · answer #10 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋