Something that has been bugging me about the Bible. The Gospels were written 20 to 50 years after Jesus Passed over..
Thinking logic, with that time difference, which is a long time. Then people quoting Jesus's words, word for word, and what he done. It worries me how much of what is said is fact or fiction.
Point number two, that I have been wondering about, is. Why are their only (four) followers in the bible, and not more? I think he had 12 followers all together..
2006-12-23 07:56:22 · 24 answers · asked by white buffalo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wrote notes and kept them for 20 plus years, then wrote them in a Gospel? No, cannot see it. Not for all of them. Not 20 plus years later
2006-12-23 08:04:10 · update #1
Even those four were not written by the people they are attributed to.
In fact know one knows who wrote any of the four gospels.
love and blessings Don
2006-12-23 08:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The four gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, only Matthew and John were among the 12 disciples, the other two were followers. Yes, written by different people on different ocassions but is parallel with content.
Matthew 10:1 The names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, the one called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the [son] of Zeb′e·dee and John his brother; 3 Philip and Bar·thol′o·mew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the [son] of Al·phae′us, and Thad·dae′us; 4 Simon the Ca·na·nae′an, and Judas Is·car′i·ot, who later betrayed him.
According to available evidence, the Gospels were written between the years 41 and 98 C.E. Jesus died in the year 33 C.E. This means that the accounts of his life were put together in a comparatively short time after his ministry ended. This poses a tremendous obstacle to the argument that the Gospel narratives are mere legends. Time is needed for legends to develop. Take, for example, the Iliad and the Odyssey by the ancient Greek poet Homer. Some hold that the text of those two epic legends developed and became stabilized over hundreds of years. What about the Gospels?
In his book Caesar and Christ, historian Will Durant writes: “That a few simple men should . . . have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels. After two centuries of Higher Criticism the outlines of the life, character, and teaching of Christ, remain reasonably clear, and constitute the most fascinating feature in the history of Western man.”
2006-12-23 08:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is it obligatory that all Jesus' apostles write a biblical book? No. Why do you think so?
How could the Bible be from God when it was written by men?’ you may ask. True, about 40 men shared in writing the Bible. These men did the actual writing of the Bible with the exception of the Ten Commandments, which were written personally by God on stone tablets by the direct action of his holy spirit. (Exodus 31:18) However, this does not make what they wrote any less the Word of God. The Bible explains: “Men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21) Yes, just as God used his powerful holy spirit to create the heavens, the earth and all living things, he also used it to direct the writing of the Bible.
This means that the Bible has only one author, Jehovah God. He used men to write the information down, much as a businessman uses a secretary to write a letter. The secretary writes the letter, but the letter contains the thoughts and ideas of the businessman. So it is his letter, not the secretary’s, even as the Bible is God’s Book, not the book of the men who were used to write it.
Since God created the mind, he surely did not find it hard to get in touch with the minds of his servants to provide them with the information to write. Even today a person can sit in his home and receive messages from a faraway place by means of a radio or a television set. The voices or pictures travel over long distances by the use of physical laws that God created. It is, therefore, easy to understand that Jehovah, from his place far away in the heavens, could direct men to write down the information that he wanted the human family to know.
The result has been a marvelous Book. Actually, the Bible is made up of 66 little books. The Greek word biblia, from which the word “Bible” comes, means “little books.” These books, or letters, were written over a period of 1,600 years, from 1513 B.C.E. to 98 C.E. Yet, because of having just one Author, all these Bible books are in harmony with one another. The same theme runs throughout the whole, namely, that Jehovah God will bring back righteous conditions by his kingdom. The first book, Genesis, tells how a paradise home was lost because of rebellion against God, and the last book, Revelation, describes how the earth will be made a paradise again by God’s rule.—Genesis 3:19, 23; Revelation 12:10; 21:3, 4.
The first 39 books of the Bible were written mainly in the Hebrew language, with very small parts in Aramaic. The last 27 books were written in Greek, the common language of the people when Jesus and his Christian followers walked the earth. These two main sections of the Bible are properly called the “Hebrew Scriptures” and the “Greek Scriptures.” Showing their agreement with each other, the Greek Scriptures quote from the Hebrew Scriptures more than 365 times, and make about 375 additional references to them.
2006-12-23 08:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 Peter 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.
That verse is talking about the law and the prophets, which in the bible is called the old testament, from which pages we have the prophesies of Jesus Christ. The prophesies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ and everything we know about him we learn from the new and the old testaments. The point being that if there is a God, and there is, and he did move in holy men by the Holy Spirit to write about Jesus Christ, and he did, then we can trust that he gave us what we need to know about him.
The fact that there are only four gospels in the bible isn't an indication of the number of followers Jesus had while he walked in bodily form on this earth, nor does it reflect the number of his disciples or of the apostles.
2006-12-23 08:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the fact is God does get his word out it is not difficult for God to keep his word pure. I would invite you to test the word even with other scripture written thousands of years before. Are they in agreement? Jesus was prophesied to come many times in scripture. He fufilled the prophesies the word in the New Testament is the true word of God and is in agreement with his teachings and his plan from the creation of the world. The Holy Spirit and the word will help you know what is of God. Edit: 20 years may seem like a long time to a man. How long was man before scripture or the law? A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. God said the day that Adam ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that day he would die and so he did. If you seek the truth and have value in it you will find it.
2006-12-23 08:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gospel account were written by those who followed Jesus closely as his disciples.Just like the things you learn from a parent or older person, if they hold any real meaning to you then remembering them and recording them for others is not so fetched. Second the bible tells of 12 apostles.You may have to do more independant research to prove it to yourself,try reading a modern translatoin of the Bible to make it easier on yourself.
2006-12-23 08:05:36 · answer #6 · answered by Jarrett D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had 12 disciples, he had thousands of followers. When He fed 5000 people who do you think He fed? They were His followers.
Many of the disciples/apostles were killed for their faith before the first gospel was even written.
Out of a group of 12 disciples, it is unreasonable that all of them were writers.
It is believed that Mark wrote His gospel first and He was not a disciple, but a follower.
It is believed that Luke was next, and then Matthew.
John was the last to write a gospel, and it was about 60 years later.
If you walked with the Son of God, you would probably not be able to forget a thing that He said. Plus, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples before the first writing and Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will bring to your memory all that I have said to you.
2006-12-23 08:09:35 · answer #7 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John was more like 90 - 110 years later. I think the estimate on Luke was 70 years. Editing came even later.
It was all subject to interpretation. That's what people do -- anything we write, say or think is subject to the filters our individual brains use.
There are far more than 4 gospels. Mary Magdalene, Thomas, Judas and a dozen more all have gospels attributed to them. The early Church picked the 4 that best supported its agenda. Search on Nag Hammadi.
2006-12-23 08:10:09 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ is the Word John 1:1. Therefore he directs His writers and tells them what to write. For instance John the Beloved wrote the book of revelation yet it has not yet come to pass. Well instead of looking forward with divine revelation he was able to see back. There are many followers written and named in the four books. All do not need to be mentioned to prove a point. For example many Christians live today and we know not all their names but they are still christians and as the defination of the word says "Chrisitans = Followers of Christ"
2006-12-23 08:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by MRJOHNLESLIE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written by man, but inspired by God. So, the bible could have been written 10,000 years later, it is still the word of God. and would be accurate as the day of Christ.
As far as the bible and we as people are concerned, the only things we need to know is that there is a Creator and we have all sinned against that Creator. We all are in need of a Savior, to cleanse us of this sin, and God has provided a Savior in His Son, Jesus Christ. Everything we need to know is already written in the Bible....there is no need for others to give the exact same account as everything we need has already been written and included in the one Holy Bible.
2006-12-23 08:05:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 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.
Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
2006-12-23 08:01:00 · answer #11 · answered by scriptureman 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋