i know many of you will say god but i mean who decided to put together all the books that form the bible?
2007-01-19 13:54:38 · 8 answers · asked by whoknows 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Men hand picked by God.Being filled with the Holy Ghost.Put the Bible together as God told them to.<><
2007-01-19 13:58:48 · answer #1 · answered by funnana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Creation of the Old Testament
The books of the Bible that make up the Old Testament were created and assembled over a long period of time. The oldest sections existed in oral form long before they were recorded; in some cases, multiple versions of stories were blended together to create the books we know today. The first five books of the Old Testament contain the oldest material, but the ancient stories were blended with more recent material as they moved from oral tradition to written document. The various threads were drawn together to form the Hebrew Bible in the ninth and tenth centuries AD. Translations into Greek began as early as the third century BC although a complete Greek Bible did not exist until much later.
Biblical scholars trace four different sources for the first five books of the Old Testament in the Hebrew Bible. The earliest of the four sources, known as the Yahwist or J, was first recorded about 950 BC. This material was blended with other material from a source known as the Elohist or E, first recorded a century or two later. Later editions came from a source known as Deuteronomy or D and a Priestly document, known as P. This last source dates from about 538-450 BC. The D source is found only in Deuteronomy and Joshua; the E source begins with the story of Abraham.
2007-01-19 22:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you mean to ask who "assembled" the Bible. That's easy. The Old Testament was assembled by the Jews who survived the Babylonian conquest. They still had the manuscripts and records. They started with tossing everything by the "prophets" who said Babylon would not attack (e.g., the nutcase in Jeremiah 28:11). They kept the prophets whose predictions DID come true. Ya see, the Bible is built on fulfilled prophecy. That's how we know the other prophecies are reliable.
The New Testament was limited to people who actually knew Jesus and walked with Him, i.e., the apostles (Acts 2:42).
2007-01-19 22:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many people did. The Old Testament was passed orally through generations. Many of the stories were derived from earlier myths of the culture. The New Testament was written decades after Jesus died, if he existed at all. Much of the information of the Gospels wasn't mentioned by Paul/Saul who wrote much earlier than them. There are other reasons to believe most of it was just fabrication.
2007-01-19 21:57:46 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church around 1610 produced the King James Version which was then translated into english
2007-01-19 22:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
humans wrote it but in 425? ad, Constantine gathered all the priests in the Roman Empire at nycia (sp) and decided on which books stayed and which ones went.
2007-01-19 21:59:39 · answer #6 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The council of Nicea. And if you think the entire thing was unsullied by greed and politics, you'd be wrong.
2007-01-19 22:01:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Men trying to entrap people in a spell of ignorance with mass control.
2007-01-19 21:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by Nuwaubian Moor 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋