Who wrote the bible?

Answer 1

The Bible is a revelation of God to man consisting of sixty-six books bound together and forming one book. Twenty-two of the books of the Bible are mainly historical, twenty-one are largely books of prophecy, twenty-one are in the form of letters, and two are primarily poetic.

Even though written by a least thirty-six different authors who were kings, farmers, mechanics, scientific men, lawyers, generals, fishermen, ministers, and priests, a tax collector, a doctor, some rich and some poor; stretching over a period of 1,600 years, yet the Bible is one book because God was its real author.

Answer 2

The Bible was originally many separate stories passed down through oral tradition for hundreds of year before it was ever written. No one can ever really know who wrote it just like no one will ever know if Homer wrote the Odyssey.

There were actually many more gospels and books than are currently in the Bible. I believe it was at the Council of Trent in 1546 that the Catholic Church sat down and decided which books should be a part of the official Bible and which books shouldn't. The Apocrypha and several "Lost Gospels" are books that didn't make the cut.

Answer 3

The bible was written by many authors, Each individual book was written by a different author living in that time period, some were authors of other books also in the bible. But basically the bible is several different authors of smaller books put together as one.

Answer 4

Many people... mostly a very long time after the supposed event. Interestingly enough, there are FOUR accepted original versions of the gospels... not four gospels, but four versions, each slightly different.

The Catholic church must also be given some "credit" for it, as they decided on the canon. Of the many many books by many authors written at many different times, each coming from a different political or philosophical perspective, the catholic church decided which ones should make it in, which ones should be destroyed for all time at all costs, and which ones should be kept hidden away.

Also, it's worth considering that there have been deliberate mis-translations in accordance with the politics or presiding views and understanding of the time of translation. To the best of my knowledge, it went from aramaic, to hebrew, to greek, to latin, and then english.

Adding it all up, it becomes understanndable that we no longer see "thou shalt not boil a goat in the milk of its mother" in the ten commandments so much these days, even though its in the original. If I recall, that particular commandment holds at least part of the reasoning behind the Kosher rules for judaism.

Such is the rough history at least. Whether or not all this happened by the Will of God is a seperate question and a matter of faith.

Answer 5

Many authors led by God to record scripture. Among them Moses, Joshua, King David, the prophet Samuel, the apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, and Jesus' brother James.

To the poster above me, how do you account for the Apocrypha, if you must give the catholic church credit for saying which ones should make it, and which ones shouldn't? Those books are the most garbage filled books I have ever read, and have NO place in scripture.

Answer 6

The Holy Spirit moved godly men to write the Scriptures.

2 Peter 1:20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Answer 7

The Holy Spirit

Answer 8

About 40 different men over about 1500 years.

Answer 9

) God used his holy spirit to inspire the men who wrote the Bible. (2 Peter 1:20, 21)

Answer 10

The Bible was written and edited by many people over many centuries.