For that to be so,god would have to have dictated every word to every person who contributed.
God would also have to have been present at the Council of Nicea when they edited the books,gospels etc and decided what would go into the bible and what would be left out.
Did this happen?
And for us English speakers,god would have to have been present when it was translated to ensure there were no errors in translation.
2007-01-28 08:35:08 · 13 answers · asked by rosbif 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Pseudepigraphal books are "false writings." They are a collection of early Jewish and "Christian" writings composed between 200 BC and AD 200. However, they too were known and were never considered scripture. A list of these would be the Epistle of Barnabas, the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, the Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, the The letter of the Smyrnaeans or the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the The Shepherd of Hermas, the The Book of Enoch, the Gospel of Thomas (140-170 AD), the The Psalms of Solomon, the The Odes of Solomon, the The Testaments of the twelve Patriarchs, the Second Baruch, the Third Baruch, the The Books of Adam and Eve.
The Deuterocanonical (apocrypha) books are those books that were included in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) but not included in the Hebrew Bible.
These pseudepigraphal and deuterocanonical books were never considered scripture by the Christian church because they were not authoritative, inspired, written by either Prophets or Apostles, nor do they have the power of the word of the books of the existing Bible. Therefore, since the books are not lost and were never part of the Bible to begin with, they have no bearing on the validity of the Bible.
The New Testament list we use today was set forth by Athanasius in A.D. 367. His list was approved by church councils meeting at Hippo Regius in 393 and Carthage in 397. Again, these decisions did not create the New Testament. They simply recognized what the Church had viewed as Scripture for generations. And Constantine had nothing to do with these decisions. By checking several histories on the Council of Nicaea, where Teabing says the emperor created the Bible, no connection was found.
2007-01-28 09:12:25 · answer #1 · answered by Sternchen 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God did inspire the writers of the Bible ~ giving them the words but using the man (and how he spoke). I do not believe that God was present at the Council of Nicea. There have been many translations men have given us that are not what God intended His Word to be. The 2 translations that are the best, but still have mistakes, are the King James Version and the New King James Version. I use them both and also a Strong's concordance to check on word's meanings to see if they are what God intended. One place to get a great concordance is www.e-sword.net. Excellent and free.
2007-01-28 16:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by smilee 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Holy men of old spoke/wrote as they were guided (borne along) by the Holy Spirit. Therefore the original Manuscripts are without error.
God has so preserved His (written) Word that any can find "Salvation" if they want.
Of course, some have (deliberately) mis-translated it to suit their own denomination's theology.
As for the Council at Nicaea ...what editing did they do? And they did affirm as Canonical the Scriptures which had already been recognized by the Universal Church for over 200 years (and the Tanakh as canonical for centuries).
2007-01-28 16:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God wrote the bible through holy men of God with the presence of his Holy Spirit. They were spiritually directed and guided by God to write the bible.
2007-01-28 16:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you doubt that God is present today? That He is continually exercising His will here on earth? My God created the earth in 6 days. He flooded the earth. He gave His Son to the cross to die because He loved me. He is fully capable of keeping His Word Holy.
2007-01-28 16:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The bible is the word of the church not God. It has been edited and interpreted by churches the way they want it to mean throughout the centuries. So this way they can control people's minds and lives.
2007-01-28 18:20:11 · answer #6 · answered by Renee 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That is where the presence of the Holy Spirit comes into play. I believe that all the events you referr to had the anointing of the Holy Spirit ont them
2007-01-28 16:48:32 · answer #7 · answered by putonthearmorofgod611 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By SECULAR standards it would have been considered a miracle!
So many authors, under so many different cirumstances, under many different ages, under many different cultures, the authors often unrelated or unknown to each other.... YET remarkably all are in harmony from one book to another!
Why? Because the spirit of G*d was the common author who moved men to write His word.
2007-01-28 16:46:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gods wisdom is foolishness to man
2007-01-28 17:01:27 · answer #9 · answered by charles b 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God wrote it himself! I found this gigantic pen in my backyard last spring buried deep in my garden.
2007-01-28 16:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋