who wrote bible & when ?

Question

please answer only if you can support it with facts. i dont want a summary of your beliefs & i know god is great..but he is not the author of this book.

Answer 1

I haven't studied the origins of the Old Testament but as far as The new Testament goes... this is one of those questions that is just too long for yahoo answers . Most of my answers are long enough. This one would be too long if it was an adequate answer. Th e book The Case For Christ is what you are looking for. It answers this question very well. It is written by a reporter who was a skeptic and his wife became a believer and he decided to do his own investigation into the subject. Give it a read. You'll definitely learn something. God bless!!

Answer 2

The Bible was written by 44 different authors over a period of many years. It is accepted that Moses wrote the first five books during the time when the Isrealites were in the desert- between 1446 and 1406 B.C. The other books of the Bible are attributed to various prophets and disciples of God and Jesus. These authors include: Paul, Peter, James, Matthew, John, Luke, Joel, Daniel, Micah, Mark, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joshua, Ezra, Ezekiel, and Jude. The majority of books in the New Testament are written by Paul, as he identifies himself in the letters. Some other books do this also. I recommend that you get a Life in the Spirit Study Bible. Each book has an introduction that includes the author and dates of writing, as well as reasons that those conclusions were made.

Answer 3

The idea that all revealed truth is to be found in "66 books" is not only not in Scripture, it is contradicted by Scripture (1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 1 Timothy 3:15, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Peter 3:16). It is a concept unheard of in the Old Testament, where the authority of those who sat on the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:2-3) existed. In addition to this, for 400 years, there was no defined canon of "Sacred Scripture" aside from the Old Testament; there was no "New Testament"; there was only Tradition and non-canonical books and letters.




Protestants claim the Bible is the only rule of faith, meaning that it contains all of the material one needs for theology and that this material is sufficiently clear that one does not need apostolic tradition or the Church’s magisterium (teaching authority) to help one understand it. In the Protestant view, the whole of Christian truth is found within the Bible’s pages. Anything extraneous to the Bible is simply non-authoritative, unnecessary, or wrong—and may well hinder one in coming to God.

Catholics, on the other hand, recognize that the Bible does not endorse this view and that, in fact, it is repudiated in Scripture. The true "rule of faith"—as expressed in the Bible itself—is Scripture plus apostolic tradition, as manifested in the living teaching authority of the Catholic Church, to which were entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the apostles, along with the authority to interpret Scripture correctly

Answer 4

Here's a pretty good site:
http://www.carm.org/bible/biblewhen.htm

How do we know? That might take a little bit more time. As far as the New Testament is concerned, other historic details (such as the deaths of various apostles) were not mentioned, so that fact gives an early date. There's also the fact that the Gospels had spread far and wide by about the fourth century, and had been translated into many other languages. It had had time to reach the far quarters of the known world.

I'll try to see what I can find on the Old Testament.

Answer 5

There's no proof or documentation on just when the bible was written but many scholars agree any where from 50 to 100 years after the fact were verbal accounts finally written down. If you accurately told a story to one person who was supposed relay the same story to another who was supposed tell another and and so on to the tenth person who was supposed to retell it to you, it would not be the same story you told. There's just no way of really knowing just what happened during the time of your Christ.

Answer 6

wow i have a pretty good answer for u actually..my answer is from a similar question that was proposed, so someo f it might not make sense:


OMG..don't you all see that having so many different versions of the Bible indicates a corrupt religion? Many authors, editors, revisors, etc. of the Bible only changed/deleted/added verses to appeal to Christians so they would remain faithful (in other words through lies) and to appeal to people who are interested in converting (the same way). Converting through lies and putting in what people WANT to hear is corrupt. For all we know, the all-loving peaceful Bible could have had some ugly verses that were deleted or replaced with more peaceful ones so that Christianity could not look like a culprit or evil religion in the future. CORRUPTION!

An imperfect, flawed religion indicates that it is disqualified as being the true religion.


When you said, "I think people are seeing the question they want to asnwer, not asnwering what has been asked..."

Well, thats kind of like the Christians changing the Bible into what they want their religion to be like (aka allowing more freedoms, making bad deeds seem less impactful, etc.), not seeking the truth or caring about what is really meant for them.

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royal racer:

God is PERFECT. Why would He need his words to be corrected? Is He not fail-proof? There is no flaw in what God says, therefore there is NO reason to subject the Bible to change. The verse you mentioned..it was probably a verse added into the Bible by one of its many authors that was never meant to be in there for the sake of doing what you just did--justifying the alteration and change of the Bible!

Answer 7

Lots of people wrote different things in the bible.
The authors are the names of the books within.
Most are hard to believe stories...Some are good.

Answer 8

Forty men, selected by God, over a period of approximately eighteen-hundred years.

The last book of the Bible was written just before 100 A.D. by the last apostle to die, the apostle John.

grace2u

Answer 9

Many jews {sheep herders sat around camp fires and many men wrote the bible, this is how the older version came to be}?

Answer 10

The bible was revealed on Jesus peace be upon him about 2000 years ago, but was changed by people for worldly benefits,