How was the bible created in the first place?

Question

Please trace the roots of this "historic" book for me. If you say that god words are spoken through the bible did that mean god created the first book? Or did god speak to a few people and tell them word for word what should be written in the bible. So does that mean god is the editor and author of the bible.

For those who believe in the words in the bible, do you know its roots?

Answer 1

Moses-first to write bible. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
yes God spoke to him. Some of the books are letters, diary, poems, and Jesus's words, and the future literally or symbolic

Answer 2

The origanal manuscripts were found in clay vessels in a cave and else where. King James got a group together to write a Bible. Or the Bible. They only used what they could prove was actual letters or manuscripts without any doubt what so ever. That is why some letters are left out of the epistles and so forth. Nothing that they were not absolutly sure of was put in the bible. The old testament came from the prophets. The new testament consists of the gospels. Matt, Mark,Luke and John. The Acts of the apostales. And the epistles. Epistles are letters written to churches born in the book of Acts. Usually dealing with specific problems within the church. This is the reason so many people are easily confused. The plan of salvation and doctrine of the church is in Acts. The epistles are letters to those churches and is basically the churches mail. If a person doesn't understand Acts they don't need to be reading the churches mail. HAHA. Thats where stuff like- Just ask Jesus to come into your heart and your saved for ever comes from. I have read some of the letters left out. I believe that the letters were written by the apostales, but it can't be proved beyond any doubt. So they were not put in the bible. And would not change the bible if they were. The old testament is translated from Hebrew. The new from Greek. That is why sometimes you think you might find a contradition or flaul in the bible. But it is just language. And a further study will always show the bible never contradicts itself. I never use any other than the King James version.

Answer 3

The first 5 books of the Old Testament are the original Jewish "Torah" translated from Hebrew.
These are primarilly attributed to Moses and are the backbone of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Mormon religions.
(yes, they all have the same start)

The rest of the old testament got added over a period of appx 1200 years. (depends on how you date the Exodus... which is mostly based in provable fact. Moses REALLY WAS a man.)

King David is responsible for a large porton of Psalms... Solomion is credited with a small portion of the Bible when you consider how much widom he is credited with.

There's a couple hundred years of essentially no additions (that were accepted into what became the "Bible"...)

The New testament is mainly composed of letters between "apostles" (close followers) of Jesus of Nazareth. A couple of the books (Luke and Acts) are essentially in the form of legal depositions of the time. Revelations is a writing by John (assumed to be the Apostle John) regarding an extended "vision" he had regarding the future.

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"The Bible" comes from Latin... "Bible" literally means "book"
The Bible is essentially a compilation of several smaller "books" ... letters.. scrolls...

There has been some debate ever since the appx 4th century comilations about which writings should or should not be included.

Catholics include some sections that are refered to as the "Apocrypha" by Protestents. These sections are not as well accepted as having actually been written by their purported authors.

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One thing that gets involved in modern interpretation of the Bible is the purposeful mistranslation of the Latin translation (from Latin to English) that became the "King James Version (authorized)" King James REFUSED 2 previously submitted translations because he didn't like what they said...

For example:
King James did not believe in "baptizm" by immersion.. The word "Baptize" comes fromt he Greek "Baptizmo" which can only be translated as "Immersed" or "Drenched" It is more correct to use "Dunked" or "Dipped" than anything else. To placate King James, the translators, refusing to write "sprinkled", created the new word "baptized" for the English language.

The mistranslations have been incorporated into most of the other language versions that are now in circulation...

Answer 4

Like many other fairy tales the stories in the bible started out as a verbal tale passed on from generation to generation... Over time as writing implements and written languages evolved the tales were written.. Overtime these individual written stories were compiled into stacks of stories which eventually became books which eventually became the bible. The original book of the bible has undergone numerous revisions with stories being added and removed over the years before it became the bible we know today..

All bible stories are cautionary tales do this and something will happen to you.. If you do something good you get something good, if you do something bad or misbehave something bad will happen.. .. Just like the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.. Leave the path and the Big Bad Wolf will get you.. Stay on the path and you will be safe..

The tales in the bible like all fairy tales are designed to illicit compliance of the masses in order to make governing groups of people easier.. By attributing the writing to an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful deity an extra added means of gaining compliance was introduced.. Not only is the tale of good or bad that happened to the character in the story a motivator for compliance but also there is the added motivator of fear that if you don't comply even if you are alone this deity will know and punish or reward you accordingly..

The bible has proven itself to be a great tool to use in governing the masses and gaining compliance.. Brainwashing has alway been a great governing tool and will always be used as such no matter what book, fairytale or other source is used for that brainwashing..

Answer 5

The Bible is actually many short stories, essays and poems that were written separately from each other. As the hebrew religion evolved and grew, priests and writters wrote. Exodus is obviously supposedly written by Moses...

But scholars suggest that there were three or four writters of the old testament (they can tell by differences in the writting styles). That is why, for example, Genesis is told twice...and the story of noah is told twice...(in one version noah takes two of each animal....in the other version, noah takes two of each animal but seven of certain animals)...etc.

The samething happens after Jesus. Many texts are written by different authors...which is why there are four accounts of Jesus's life...and they're all preaty different.

For both the Jewish tradition and the Christian one, there was a meeting of the "church" leaders...and they voted on which texts would be included and which would not be. This is why there are gospels according to Judas, Mary Magdalene, and Thomas...but they aren't included in what we call the bible...

Answer 6

Ever since Eve encountered Satan's barrage of doubt and denial (Gen 3:1-7), mankind has continued to question God's Word. Unfortunately, Eve had little or no help in sorting through her intellectual obstacles to full faith in God's self-disclosure (Gen 2:16,17).

Scripture certainly has more than enough content to be interrogated, considering that it's comprised of 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, and 774,746 words...written by 40 some different men from all walks of life inspired by the Spirit, over 1,500 years, with one message...Jesus.

If you are asking,"How can I be sure this is the pure and true Word of God?" with a willingness to learn and with a teachable mind (Acts 17:11), then I suggest you link to the source I listed and review the Bible Q&A provided...

Seek and you shall find...

Answer 7

Of course they don't know its hsitory!

The New Testament as used in most Western chuches actually dates to around 367 AD when Athanasius of Alexander listed the canon in his Easter letter. Even this list included books now no longer considered scripture.

Earlier canons included many more gospels, including those that detailed the childhood of Jesus in which he played tricks on his friends by turning them into pigs and donkeys.

I guess there is only so far people are now willing to go to stretch their credibility, but I defy any Christians to tell us why so many books were conveniently "dropped" from the canon (were they suddenly not written by god).

Answer 8

precisely. yet take a step farther decrease back from that to the myths that brought about the bible. it somewhat is the place the administration began with some sensible guy arising with the story and the dupes falling for it and falling in line on an identical time as the "priest" pontificates and earnings.

Answer 9

its a kinda long story
before it was put together everyone thought that the would was going to end this was during the time of the roman occupation so all the outcasts and slaves which was 95% of the population wanted the world to end because they were in so much pain then they realised that it wasent and the witnesses to the acts of Jesus were dieing and they wanted to spread there religion so they had the witnesse wright everything down so they could pass it down for generations that what they taught me in school and im not really an religion expert but thats what i believe

Answer 10

Genesis, written by Moses sometime about 1513 BCE.
Revelations, written by John on the island of Patmos Greece, in 96 CE. Archaeology can tell you alot. Especially about the prophecies of the Old Testament. Really cool.