Er... how was the Bible put together? Who chose what was right to go into it and what wasn't "the word of God"??
2007-01-04 22:03:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lots of people through the ages inspired by the Holy Spirit put the books together to form what is now the word of God. God himself through these people decided it.
2007-01-04 22:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by ekduin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is basically the Jewish Scriptures so that was put together by Jewish scribes. The New Testament was formalised by the council of Nicea but as with the Old Testament it only approved books accepted for their truthfulness and historical accuracy, not the books that were little more that trashy novels written hundreds of years later in languages other than the hebrew and greek of bible times.
2007-01-05 07:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by trebor88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big stooshie about this over the 300 years from Jesus' time to Constantine's. Now Constantine wanted Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire, for political reasons, but it wasn't much use as a unifying force in its fragmented, warring state at that time. So he got a bunch of the leaders together and told them to effin' well sort out what was, and wasn't, in. The result was the "Canon of Scripture" and the Nicene Creed.
In other words, it was a bunch of politically-aware old men in a smoke filled room, hundreds of miles and a dozen generations away from the events they were judging on. Trust them if you will.
Pondering that point is (partly) how I became an atheist.
2007-01-05 06:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible as we know it came about due to the decisions of the counsil of Nicea 336 A.D. Thos uninspired men made decisions as to what books to include and what doctrines was acceptable. Before then not all Christians beleived in the trinity and that Jesus was devine. Before that many Christians beleived that Jesus and Mary Magdelene were married. Before then many Chriastians beleived in reincarnation. The counsil of Nicea decided what was of God and what was heracy.
2007-01-05 06:14:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
king James of England ordered the bible translated by priest and monks.the old testament comes from the Jews laws,handed down from moses.the new testament was letters wrote by the apostles of Christ to different churches. the catholic church organized and chooses what to put in the bible as we know it today.
2007-01-05 14:53:47 · answer #5 · answered by Paula M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was decided by the Nicean council 325 CE
2007-01-05 06:15:13 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is made up of books written by people who witnessed Jesu's work not all that witnessed the works of Jesus could write or afford to pay some one to write the book for them so it all comes down to if you could read and write or if you had the money to pay some to do it for you.
2007-01-05 06:07:24 · answer #7 · answered by Morphius 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You've gotta admit though...It's the Worlds best selling novel!...Don't ya just love a good fiction story? Presently re reading "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Good God!! And thanks for all the fish.
2007-01-05 06:15:21 · answer #8 · answered by Antman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there was a group of scholars that met, about 300 years after Christ, that decided.
2007-01-05 06:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by dana5169 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the romans. they even took a vote on whether jesus was the son of god etc and threw away all gospels that didn't agree with their votes. i think constantine was the name of the emporer who ran it all
2007-01-05 06:05:10 · answer #10 · answered by rykkers 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋