How was the Bible created?

Question

Who decided what books would go into the Bible, when, and in what order, and why does the Catholic Bible differ from the Protestant? I'm looking more for a book or website for research than a straight answer.

Answer 1

God inspired the Bible through forty writers.
Inspiration doesn't mean the biblical writer just felt enthusisatic, like the composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Nor does it mean the writings are necessarily inspiring to read, like an uplifting poem. The biblical Greek workd for inspiration litterally means "God-breathed." Because Scripture is breathed out by God - because it originates from Him - it is true and inerrant.
Biblical inspiration may be difined as God's superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities - and even their writing styles - they composed and recorded without error His revelation to humankind in the words of the original autographs. In other words, the original documents of the their own personalities and literary talents, wrote under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the result being a perfect and errorless recording of the exact message God desired to give to man.
Hence, the writers of Scripture were not mere writing machines. God did not use them like keys on a typewriter to mechanicallly reproduce His message. Nor did He dictate the words, page by page. The biblical evidence makes it clear that each writer had a style of his own. (Isaiah ahd a powerful literary style; Jeremiah had a mournful tone; Luke's style had medical evertones; and John was very simple in his approach.) The Holy Spirit infallibly worked through each of these writers, through their individual styles, to inerrantly communicate His message to humankind.

The Bible's accuracy and reliability have been proved and verified over and over again by archaeological finds produced by both believing and nonbelieving scholars and scientists. This included verification for numerous customs, places, names, and events mentioned in the Bible.
One among many examples is the fact that for many years the existence of the Hittites (a powerful people who lived during the time of Abraham) was questioned because no archaeological digs had uncovered anything about them. Critics claimed the Hittites were pure myth. But today the critics are silenced. Abundant archaeological evidence for the existence of the Hittites during the time of Abraham has been uncovered.
Bible scholar Donald J. Wiseman notes, "The geography of Bible lands and visible remains of antiquity were gradually recorded until today more than 23,000 sites within this region and dating to Old Testament times, in their broadest sense, have been located." Nelson Glueck, a specialist in ancient literature, did an exhaustive study and concluded: "It can be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a biblical reference." Well-known scholar William F. Albright, following a comprehensive study, wrote: "Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details, and has brought increased recognition of the value of the Bible as a source of History."

There are more than 24,000 partial and complete manuscript copies of the New Testament. These manuscript copies are very ancient and they are available for inspection NOW. there are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity). In fact, there are enough quotations from the early church fathers that even if we did not have a single copy of the Bible, scholars could still reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material written within 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. Bottom line: The New Testament has an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting its reliability.
"The Apocrypha refers to 14 or 15 books of doubtful authenticity and authority that the Roman Catholics decided belonged in the Bible sometime following the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Council of Trent (1545-1563) canonized these books. This canonization took place largely as a result of the Protestant Reformation. Indeed, Luther had criticized the Catholics for not having scriptural support fur such doctrines as praying for the dead. By canonizing the Apocrypha (which offers support for praying for the dead in 2 Maccabees 23:45-46), the Catholics suddenly had "scriptural" support for this and other distinctively Catholic doctrines.
Roman Catholics argue that the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament) contained the Apocrypha. As well, church fathers like Iraneaus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria used the Apocryphal books in public worship and accepted them as Scripture. Further, it is argued, St. Augustine viewed these books as inspired.
Protestants respond by pointing out that even though some of the Apocryphal books may have been alluded to in the New Testament, no New Testament writer EVER quoted from ANY of these books as holy Scripture or gave them the slightest authority as inspired books. Jesus and the disciples virtually ignored these books, something that wouldn't have been the case if they had considered them to be inspired.
Moreover, even though certain church fathers spoke approvingly of the Apocrypha, there were other early church fathers - notable OrigIn and Jerome - who denied their inspiration. Further, even though the early Augustine acknowledged the Aprocrypha, in his later years he rejected these books as being outside the canon and considered them inferior to the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Jewish Council of Jamnia, which met in A.D. 90, rejected the Aprocrypha as Scripture. Combine all this with the fact that there are clear historical errors in the Aprocrypha (especially those relating to Tobit) and the fact that it contains unbiblical doctrines (like praying for the dead), and it is clear that these books do not belong in the Bible. In addition, unlike many of the biblical books, THERE IS NO CLAIM IN ANY APOCRYPHAL BOOK IN REGARD TO DIVINE INSPIRATION.

Answer 2

The proposal that every one discovered reality is to be determined in "sixty six books" is not just no longer in Scripture, it's contradicted via Scripture (one million Corinthians eleven:two, two Thessalonians two:15, two Thessalonians three:6, one million Timothy three:15, two Peter one million:20-21, two Peter three:sixteen). It is a suggestion unparalleled within the Old Testament, wherein the authority of folks that sat at the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:two-three) existed. In addition to this, for four hundred years, there used to be no outlined canon of "Sacred Scripture" apart from the Old Testament; there used to be no "New Testament"; there used to be simplest Tradition and non-canonical books and letters. Protestants declare the Bible is the one rule of religion, which means that it includes all the fabric one demands for theology and that this fabric is adequately transparent that one does no longer want apostolic culture or the Church’s magisterium (educating authority) to aid one appreciate it. In the Protestant view, the complete of Christian reality is determined inside the Bible’s pages. Anything extraneous to the Bible is readily non-authoritative, useless, or mistaken—and might good prevent one in coming to God. Catholics, then again, respect that the Bible does no longer propose this view and that, actually, it's repudiated in Scripture. The real "rule of religion"—as expressed within the Bible itself—is Scripture plus apostolic culture, as manifested within the residing educating authority of the Catholic Church, to that have been entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the apostles, together with the authority to interpret Scripture effectively.

Answer 3

It only makes sense that nothing short of a Supernatural God could produce such a Supernatural book as the Bible.

Answer 4

God wrote it in plain english and placed it in hotel rooms all around the western world for our edification and enlightenment. It's basically the handbook of the universe. It will teach you anything you ever need to know, and teach you about infidels and how they will use their evil trickeries, such as logic, theory, science and fact to blind you from the TRUTH OF THE LORD!

Answer 5

Constantine - at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

Answer 6

better buy your self a book where you can learn something from instant of the Bible it contant 100's of pages with useless information

Answer 7

do read some information about Hinduism - Krishna. the way of Jesus birth and Krishna birth almost the same.

somehow, one of them might be an "altered copy".

the word "krish" is almost similar to "christ" in pronunciation.

Answer 8

god told prophets to tell his stories and to teach people and this jus carried on to create the bible

Answer 9

Go surfing then, why are you here?

Answer 10

god told people what to wright