Bible?????

Question

If men wrote the Bible, how do they know what happened?

Answer 1

They don't. The Bible is cr@p, thats why it doesn't make sense!
How do I know?! Don't forget I am Jesus, aka The Cookie Munster!!!

Answer 2

What's so amazing about the Bible is that it is a collection of 66 Books, and was wriiten over a period of 1600 years, by 40 different authors, who for the most part didn't know each other.

The Bible was written in about 13 different countries on 3 different continents, 3 different languages.

The Bible was written in by people from all kinds of professions: shepherds, kings, soldiers, princes, priests, fisherman, scholars, historians, businessmen, and common laborers.



..and despite all this variation with the authors, and its writings, the Bible remained unified in its message.
"God's Redemtive Plan for Mankind" is the unified message througout the entire Book.

There are more than 668 prophecies which have been fulfilled, so far, and none have ever been proven wrong.,

There has never been an archeologiocal find that has contradicted the stories of the Bible.
Archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament traditons.

For the events, prophecies and stories to add up, connect and intersect with such accuracy is impossible to do with even 2 authors, much less 40 over a timespan of 1600 years.

Did the Bible get written apart from divine inspiration? I would say that would be an impossibilty.

So, to answer your question....

If men wrote the Bible, how do they know what happened?

Most of it was first hand accounts, some were from dreams, some were accounts given by others but, is ALL was written by inspiration and guidence from God

Its impossible to come to any other conclusion and have
the uniity we find within its pages.


Added to respond the gentleman prior to my post

The Dead Sea Scrolls which were found in 1947
comprise roughly 850 documents.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C. to 68 C.E./A.D.

The wriytings were compared by experts and its the same words, with a few very minor exceptions, we can read today in our Bibles.

Answer 3

The men that wrote the Bible actually experienced what they wrote. Moses wrote portions of the Old Testament. What he did not experience first hand came from his time spent with God on Mt Sinai. After his death sections were written by the prophets and then the disciples in the New Testement.

Answer 4

There is Torah B'alpeh, meaning the Bible which was taught to Moses by G-d. Then Moses taught it to the Sanhedrin, and then to the Elders, and so on.

However after many generations. It was written over by man what they were taught. Which was given by G-d. Being that man was concerned that it would be not be remembered correctly.

The Bible, which is referred to now as Torah Sh'bksav, "the written bible" was by man. so that man would remember it forever.

But the Bible was first given by G-d at Mount Sinai, and later on after many generations it was written down by man as to insure the exact version given by G-d for man to learn, and practice it correctly.

So man did not write the bible first, it was given by G-D, and then written by man..

O.K. here come all the thumbs down from the athiests, and the evolutionists. I love it. The more thumbs down I receive, the prouder I am to be a Jew. "The chosen one"

Answer 5

They heard from others. Today we know that even gospel by Matt, Mark, Luke and John were not even wrote by them but someone else. They are conveniently called so...

There are today almost 10000 Manuscripts of the bible and no two are the same. this proves that the whole stuff is hearsay.

Answer 6

It was a gradual secession. =)

Well see first we started with tinder, (charcoal, once we learned to make fire) And we were able to document important and new discoveries.

..Then came hieroglyphics.
This was a big deal, because man was able to formulate a series of symbols that could be recorded. And taught...
..but they could do so in grander fashion, than charcoal on a cave wall.

..They carved our history onto Mammoth Columns, Obelisks, Temples and Pyramids.

Eventually we took the pith of the papyrus plant, and the Sepia of the Squid, and alas..
..We had pen and paper.
..
.... Then the Coptics, Cretans, Semitics, then Canaanites, Aramaics, and Gothics, formed their respective Babel, and man would forever be able to hand down the names and stories of the men that came before them...

..and curiously enough, with each new Lexicon, they would teach each other to translate..

Answer 7

I would ask... which Bible? I have owned in my past 5 different versions at one time. I'm sure there are many more. My point is that the "bible" as we know it in modern times changes depending on which branch of chrisitianity and sub denomination you follow personally. I do not believe that any human alive has ever seen the "original" version.

Answer 8

I never understand questions like this. Who ELSE did you expect to write the Bible? Or anything else, for that matter?

Humans pretty much have a monopoly on ALL written word out there that I am familiar with. So we need to have that as a starting point - don't we?

Answer 9

It was written at the time it happened, it is recorded history.
Remember it is a factual book, however, the person writting tabout the events at the time were writting from their perspective, writting about the truth or as near to the truth as they saw it at the time.
Jesus lived, it is a fact, the bible is a guide to what happened at that time, interpretation of the bible is different, every person has their own interpretation, therefore it can become confusing.

Answer 10

One Author - Many Writers.

Do not confuse the two, authorship and writership. A book may be credited to a certain author, yet, by means of dictation, the actual writing be done by a number of secretaries. This is how it was with the Bible. Its authorship is rightly credited to Jehovah God, who by means of his holy spirit inspired about forty human secretaries to write the information down. “All Scripture is inspired of God,” and this includes the writings of the apostles along with “the rest of the Scriptures.” (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 3:15, 16) Paul in writing to Timothy here used the Greek word The·o′pneu·stos, literally meaning “God-breathed,” a term translated “inspired of God.” So when God’s spirit or invisible active force became operative upon the Bible writers so they could record what Jehovah dictated, it was as if God was breathing upon them to empower and bear them along in the task. Hence, it is written, “prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.”—2 Pet. 1:21; John 20:21, 22.

In still another illustrative way this unseen holy spirit of God is spoken of as his “finger.” That is why men, upon seeing Moses perform a supernatural feat, exclaimed, “It is the finger of God!” (Ex. 8:18, 19; compare with Jesus’ words at Matthew 12:22, 28; Luke 11:20.) It was “God’s finger,” the active force of God, that carved the Ten Commandments in the stone tablets.—Ex. 31:18; Deut. 9:10.

So it was an easy matter for Jehovah to pick men from among shepherds, farmers, fishermen and tentmakers, or to choose one who was a priest, king, prophet, physician or tax collector, to write at His dictation. Whether the writer was schooled in the courts of Pharaoh or was just an “unlettered and ordinary” man in scholastic training, was unimportant to the Great Author. (Acts 7:22; 4:13) Sometimes these men of God simply repeated Jehovah’s words verbatim, but at other times God’s active force put the divine thoughts into their minds and then allowed them their own choice of words. This colored the pages of the Bible with a beautiful rainbow of individual writing traits and a diversity in styles—songs, prayers, prose, poetry—while at the same time superb oneness in theme and unity in purpose was maintained throughout.

Thus the Bible, reflecting as it does the mind and will of Jehovah, far surpasses anything mere men could author. It is written in simple, easy-to-understand language that can be translated into practically any tongue. Scholars admire it as a masterpiece of simple, yet powerful, descriptive words like “God,” “man,” “life,” “death,” “fire,” “ice,” “sing,” “cry,” “stop,” “run.”

Another feature of the Bible that demonstrates its single authorship is the systematic orderliness of the book as a whole. It is not a scramble of unrelated fragments from the pens of many men. Rather, the many subjects discussed are highly unified and interconnected, reflecting the mind of the Creator-Author himself. Throughout, the Bible proves to be an organizational book, whether the subject matter pertains to the patriarchal families, the nation of Israel, the Davidic kingdom or the Christian congregation

Answer 11

2 Peter 1:21 "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."