Who wrote the bible?

Question

I know the answer, im just wondering how many of you do. And im asking, who decided what is in the bible you read today. And if you say Jesus, please dont waist anyones time....

A man that didnt even belive in god decided what would be in the bible and what wouldnt, he was trying to unite rome under one religion on his death bed, hundreds of years after the original scriptures were written. So if your a christian, its fine to belive that the word was written down by other christians originally, but a christian is not the one that decided what is in the bible you read today, the probibly forgot to go over that with you in your sunday school class....

And one more thing......there is a book full of the scriptures they decided not to add to the bible written by the same people, the things in this book may make you feel a little different about the bible and religon......you should pick it up

Answer 1

The Council of Nicea? :)

Answer 2

Various rabbis, scribes, and other people of professions that called for the ability to write wrote the old testament. Much of the new testament was set down by followers of Jesus about 30 or 40 years after his death.

As to who decided what is in the modern Bible, I believe that there was some sort of council in the 15th century that involved a group of scholars being locked in a room and told they couldn't leave until they decided which books were "pure" and could be allowed in the finished, published Bible. Rumor has it that the cranky, hungry scholars tipped the table and deemed the scrolls that fell on the floor unfit to include. Did King James call for that council? I don't remember...

Answer 3

To decide who it was that made the decision about what we read in the bible today is found at 2:Timothy 3:16.
To understand that man could not do a single thing to direct his own step gives us the answer as to why the bible has to be inspired. Jeremiah 10;23
(2 Peter 1:20-21) 20 For YOU know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.

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Answer 4

This to the person who reply "As for the Quran, its hogwash..."

When people ask Us(Muslim) who wrote the Quran, we can answer in Unity that God(Allah swt) is the author of the Quran BUT YOU with your religion can't even decide in 1 voice who wrote the Bible, The names of the authors, disciples, apostle, men inspire by God etc. Eg take a look when a question like this was ask, take a look at how many different answers was given by Christian here, and then when not satisfied with your answer you include the Quran saying it is a hogwash. No wonder Atheist here like keep on questioning your religion and faith.

To the guy who post this question, I'm very Sorry cause my answer have no related to your question, sometimes i got carry away with some of the answers posted here.

salam
htw_guy

Answer 5

God, the Holy Spirit is the official Author of record for the Bible and He used 40 men as "ghost writers", which is where that term came from in the first place.

All of them were Jewish except for one Greek, and they wrote over a period of 1600 years.

During Peter's life time, Peter claimed that Paul's letters were Scripture and you can read that in 2 Peter chapter 3:

15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

The Jewish leaders at some point prior to the Destruction of the Temple in 70 AD agreed that the books in the Septuagent which didn't occur in Hebrew should be rejected as part of the Scriptures and in this decision, the Christian leaders concurred.

Those are the 16 books called the Apocrapha, today.

I believe that the Apostle John, the last living Apostle, organized the New Testament as we know it today.

There is a myth that the Council at Nicea decided all this but right after the Edict of Milan in about 313 AD, more than ten years before the Church Council at Nicea was even thought of, baby Christian Constantine ordered 50 Bibles to be made for the largest 50 churches in the Empire, and those Bibles have the exact same books in them in the same sequence as we use today.

Early church fathers duing the 2nd century, wrote letters to various other congregations and included table of contents which look just like present day Bible and they quoted nearly all of the New Testament except for something like 20 verses.

All told there are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

good question....

i respect christians and their beliefs... my family were born christians of course based on their religions.. and i was born too.. knowing that jesus exists.. and there is God above all... maybe it is true...

however, im also asking myself the same question.. and i do believed that only man (i dont know who) had written it...

i could say that i can also create bible... or any books full of imaginations and fantasies like the other authors who have also done that....

so.. the point here... do we need to believed the words written in the bible in order for us to be saved in the judgement day? or is there really a judgement day?

Answer 7

The Bible, as the inspired recorded of revelation, contains the word of God; that is, it contains those revealed truths which the Holy Ghost wishes to be transmitted in writing. However, all revealed truths are not contained in the Bible (see TRADITION); neither is every truth in the Bible revealed, if by revelation is meant the manifestation of hidden truths which could not other be known. Much of the Scripture came to its writers through the channels of ordinary knowledge, but its sacred character and Divine authority are not limited to those parts which contain revelation strictly so termed. The Bible not only contains the word of God; it is the word of God. The primary author is the Holy Ghost, or, as it is commonly expressed, the human authors wrote under the influence of Divine inspiration. It was declared by the Vatican Council (Sess. III, c. ii) that the sacred and canonical character of Scripture would not be sufficiently explained by saying that the books were composed by human diligence and then approved by the Church, or that they contained revelation without error. They are sacred and canonical "because, having been written by inspiration of the Holy Ghost, that have God for their author, and as such have been handed down to the Church". The inerrancy of the Bible follows as a consequence of this Divine authorship. Wherever the sacred writer makes a statement as his own, that statement is the word of God and infallibly true, whatever be the subject-matter of the statement.

As for the Quran, its hogwash...

Answer 8

God actually wrote the Bible. It says so itself..."The Word was with God and The Word was God." The Word is actually Jesus. Jesus and God are the same, but they are also separate beings. As far as who decided what is in the Bible that we read today, I am not sure of that. I think it may have been some scribes were under King James' rule, but I don't know. There were so many books written in the Biblical days that we don't know about and they were taken out of the original text. Like there was a Gospel of Thomas, supposively, but it was taken out. I do know for sure that it was not Jesus who decided what is in the Bible we read today. It was a man-made decision, not a Divine decision.

Answer 9

A big portion by Mr. Paul, unfortunately he never met Prophet Jesus, during His first appearance, but allegedly claim he met him after crucifying attempt and raised to Heavens, some where on road in dream or what I do not know.

And so many people since then, and a continuous phenomenon started.

Need some real serious thoughts.

Answer 10

Wow, I have a pretty good answer for you actually..my answer is from a similar question that was proposed, so some of 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, revisers, 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! For all sixty-six or so versions of the bible, money is an inevitable thing to be easily made--and with so many different bibles, it is hard to know which one to go by and which different “interpretation” to follow.

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, that’s 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.

The Bible was once beautiful, but it was changed and adulterated, and therefore lost all its beauty to the greedy “converters” who wanted to win converts or strengthen weak followers by releasing new editions and versions of the Bible that sounded appealing or adhered to the potential convert’s or weak follower’s likes, and get as many converts by any means--even if it means lying or taking advantage of the situation and circumstances.

Answer 11

You can't claim to know the answer as you weren't there when the various versions were written. I don't either, but what I think is that various priests and other men of high power in religious orders wrote and edited the bible.