who wrote and edited the bible? and how many times was it edited?

Question

and by who? how can we know after 2000 years that the majority of Jesus'es teaching havent been edited out by kings, nobles and general dictators?

i cant find a "best answer"...so let the public choose and forget the points!!!

Answer 1

We have manuscripts that date right back to Jesus' generation and we KNOW it has textually stayed the same. If the Gospel were distorted over time as you suggest, we would find the earliest manuscripts would tell a different Gospel, but it doesnt.

Another way you can ALWAYS know Gods truth is to have Gods spirit. You ever get the feeling when youve heard the truth, something that you havent actually heard before but it makes perfect sense? That youve always known it? That is the way it is with the Holy Spirit and God.

Answer 2

The Bible we read is translated from the 1,000 - 10,000 copies of each book that we found scattered all over Israel, The Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, etc., that were circulated to the early churches around 0-100 AD, so they were the same ones around while Jesus disciples (the apostles and many others who followed him personally) were still alive. They differ by less than 2% from each other, and the verses that do differ slightly, are noted as such in the translation. (ie, english version).

The ancient Jewish scriptures are also translated from many, many copies that they have held onto for centuries. In that culture, it was considered a capital crime to alter the words of it. They copied it exactly the same, generation after generation. We found so many copies, it would be obvious if they were all different.

Plus, even if something was "lost" per se, or we don't understand something (we don't understand the entire thing anyway, because we don't live in those cultures), it doesn't change the central princples. The principles in the Bible go against deception and corruption, and against idolizing human beings. So a corrupt leader would never circulate the Bible freely, nor change it to say what it does today! It would dethrown them. :-)

Answer 3

Gee, didn't I just answer this?

The bible had been both translated and interpreted many many times.

200 years before Christ, Alexander the Great (yes he's in the bible - if you have either a Catholic bible or a Protestant bible with "apocrypha") tried to unify his world under Greek rule. He insisted that everyone speak Greek. He gathered together 72 Hebrews to translate their sacred scriptures into Greek. This was called the Septuagint.

We were originally Jews, who used both the Septuagint and Hebrew scriptures. In 90, the Jews met for their Council of Jamnia - at which they pulled from their scriptures (in the original language) 7 books that supported Christianity. The Septuagint, since it was for the Gentile, remained unchanged.

The accepted canon of the Christian bible was made permanent in two different councils. Council of Hippo and Council of Carthage. I believe those were in 393 and 397.

Around 395 or so, St. Jerome began translating the Septuagint into Latin. Thus came the Latin Vulgate. Vulgate meaning common. So this bible was for the common people. That is to say those who couldn't speak Greek as Latin was common at the time.

The bible remained as it was up until the time of Martin Luther. Around 1534. Luther heavily revised the bible and translated it into German. To his own end.

He pulled books that the Jews pulled in their anti-Christian move during the Council of Jamnia. Then he went on to heavily persecute the Jews.

One of the notably edits that he made of his own particular design is to add the word "alone" after faith. As in 'you will be saved by faith alone.'

There are other edits, but that one causes particular problems wherein Christians don't think there is any need to do good works - even though Jesus himself says we should.

The next translation would have been the Douay Rheims. The Douay Rheims was translated word for word from the Latin Vulgate. It is still in use today and is a real work of art.

In around 1611 or so, King James commissioned his own bible to go with his fairly new religion. He basically "piggy backed" off the Douay Rheims. With a slight edit here and there. It was called the English Standard Bible.

Some 100 years after that, the Puritans took the English Standard Bible. They were tired of their oppressors so they decided to make their bible more "Protestant" along the lines of Martin Luther's bible. So they pulled the same 7 books he did. They also changed "babble" to repeat - in a very anti-Catholic move. 'Do not repeat your prayers like the pagans do...'

This became the King James Version.

I could go on but I think you're getting the picture.

In the early 1940's the pope asked for a new translation. A bible that was translated directly from the original language. Scrolls had been found the caves of Qumran and with some of the oldest known biblical texts of all times.

The pope wanted a fresh translation. J.R. Tolkein was on the original team. The Jerusalem Bible is a work of art. It is the official bible of the Catholic Church.

Some of the cousins here will say no no - the New American Bible is the official bible of the Catholic Church. Sorry guys. That's the official bible of the American Catholic Church.

The Jerusalem Bible was the first to use Yahweh. Jehovah is a mistranslation. The Jerusalem Bible leaves many of God's names as they appear in scripture - rather than the standard white wash of Lord or God.

The Jerusalem Bible is a word for word translation. It has not been "interpreted. As such - some fellow decided to "clean up" the Jerusalem Bible as some of its passages were difficult to comprehend. He also decided to make it PC - which ruined the meaning of some passages entirely. It's pure garbage.

Go to Bible Gateway - link provided below.
http://www.biblegateway.com/

Pick any book. Any chapter. Any verse. Flip through it on all the various versions of the bible presented there. Know that they are all protestant versions.

PS: Here's another good link:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15367a.htm

Answer 4

The Bible is 66 books written by 40 authors 1700 years apart from 17 countries.
There are over 20,000 existing original manuscripts in Sanskrit, papyrus, and on paper. Most of which is written in the Koine Greek language that Alexander the Great established as the universal language in the Hellenistic period.and the Hebrew of the Old Testament has been maintained for thousands of years.
The Bible has various translations depending on Greek and Hebrew scholars most of which maintains original context with some variations in nuances that can be understood by studying ancient cultures.

Answer 5

The bible never was a " book " . It is a collection of documents written by unknowledgeable humans over a period of several hundred years.

The earliest writings of the Old Testament were written around 1850 BCE. These were stories borrowed from the older writings of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
First Great Revision of Judaism about 1200 B.C.E. The myth of Exodus was included in the revision, transformed as it was from the older story of the expulsion of the Hyksos
Second and third revisions, 742 – 600 BCE the many gods of the Old Testament are harmonized into a singular being _ Yahweh
The Fourth Great Revision 586 B.C.E. to 538 B.C.E.
The Fifth Great Revision of Judaism 323 B.C.E. to 45 C.E. under Greek influence
The Last Great Revision of Judaism 30 C.E. to appx. 73 C.E
50 C.E. to 140 C.E. The Jesus Movement suddenly and quickly transformed itself from a social and political reform movement into a full-blown religion.
The Gospels: Mythmaking Begins in Ernest. Myths and miracles added to the bible 65 C.E. to appx. 120 C.E.
Emperor Constantine 313 C.E. to appx. 430 C.E. demanded that the bishops at the First Council of Nicea come up with a consistent, catholic doctrine that would be universal. This is where the word Catholicism comes from.
320 C.E. to 1330 C.E. Emperor Constantine ordered Eusebius to put together some scriptures for him to present to the new churches he was constructing at his new capital of Constantinople in time for his new festival of the resurrection, to be called "Easter”.
The Protestant Revision and the English Bibles 1330 to 1611. John Wycliffe organized the translation of the Bible into English.
The King James Bible version first appeared in 1611. Though the frontispiece written by the conference declares it to be a new translation, that's not really what it was. In fact, it was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1602, which itself was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1568, which was a revision of Coverdale's less than scholarly Great Bible, which was a rewrite of the Tyndale and Wycliffe works.

Answer 6

The dead sea scrolls prove that the bible has been altered. Sometimes through misinterpretations and sometimes to make someone wealthier. However I believe that some are based on historical facts. Kind of how in the game telephone where a secret is told to the first person in a line, and by the end it is quite altered.

Answer 7

That has always been my point. Most of the NT wasn't written until, at the very earliest, 30 years after Jesus' crucifixion. (supposedly)
I can only surmise that serious religious historians might be able to untangle the mess of revisions, misquotes, and lost chapters made over time.

Answer 8

how many deffrent bibles do you saw and if kings change the bible where they change it in europe or in asia or in afreca and afer they cahnge it they collect all the old ones from the world is it logic?
the bibles was wrote by four deffrent persons in four deffrent places and defferent duration but when you read it you can see that each bible or part of it is compleating the other parts

read it carfully and you will find the trouth

Answer 9

it has not been edited but it was written by 4,000 people. now i know that it has not been deleted or added to because the very last verse in the bible says that if some one does add to it then the will be struck dead. yeah that serious.

Answer 10

we don't know how much its been edited, altered, had things added, deleted, molded to conform to rules of the day. So many versions about, its so confusing. This bothered me alot when I was a Christian. Once I saw Qur'an was unaltered by one letter or word, and I see how easy it is to memorize cover to cover, I was amazed. This meant no one could ever alter it by even one letter, as millions around the world have it completely memorized.