What does your Church teach about how The Bible was written, the choosing of its books, & historical context?

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The Bible is considered central in Christianity, yet how many Christians know of its origins and history as a compiled book?

What does your church teach about this book's birth and development?

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ODDS10TO1: If you're going to trust your soul to the writings of a book, wouldn't you consider it important to understand how that book came to be? Your lack of curiosity is entirely amazing. I wouldn't consider marrying someone without knowing something about their past. Yet marriages last only 50-75 years at most. You're basing your eternity on something that you haven't even examined enough to know who wrote it.

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Some divergent answers, some of which answer the question, some of which vamp on a different theme. So let's see which receives "best answer" in a vote.

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Answer 1

All the gospels are pseudonomous or worse.

The story of the adultress in John chapter 7-8 I believe, exists in no bible before the 12th century

In Mark the book ends in all earliest existing manuscripts with the 3 women seeing the empty tomb and they are scared. The End, the rest of the story was added later, jesus appearing before all the different people was added later.

While most of them are minor and unimportant, in the 5400 existing greek manuscripts there are more errors than there are words in the NT. Even with computer programs they have still not come up with an exact number, it is in the 100's of thousands.

Answer 2

The 73 divinely inspired texts of the Christian Bible were infallibly compiled, once and for all time, by the bishops of the Holy Catholic Church, gathered in Council for that specific purpose, at Carthage, North Africa, in 397 A.D. Since then, not a word of the Bible has been changed, deleted or added by Christ's Holy Church. Of course changes were made by the founder of unauthorized, manmade denominational religion, who decided to throw out 10 books of God's Holy Word - 7 Old Testament books and 3 New Testament books - because they didn't support his new doctrinal traditions. Fortunately his followers refused to allow him to trash the writings of the Apostles themselves. But he still threw out 7 books of Sacred Scripture that all Christians on earth had used for the previous 1,200 years. So now the Protestant "Bible" has only 66 books instead of the original 73 of the Christian Bible, and if their founder had his way they would have only 63. And they would blindly insist that those 63 were the only valid books of the Bible, based on the unauthoritative decision of one renegade Catholic priest.

Answer 3

I have struggled with the whole research and investigate the origins of the bible- living in an informational age it can get well to put it mildly crazy- so one day I decided to get on my knees and go to the source- my prayer went something like this- Lord you are not the author of confusion- nothing would give you more pleasure than for me to know you- I live in a deceiving world where people claim to be something they are not- so I AM asking you to show me your word and if there is anything in there that you did not send to write please tell me- my prayer was answered in a second - I went over to my dining table where my bible was and just opened it for no apparent reason and the scripture in psalm 32:8 says I will instruct you I will show you the way I will guide you with my eyes- so the lord did and still is. I hope this encourages the readers-

Answer 4

You can not prove your position by using The Bible... The Bible is not intended for you and you will find nothing in it that is for you... read it all you want... you will not find what you seek... The Bible dose not "prove" it's self... that is not it's purpose... The Bible dose not prove God. But God will prove The Bible to those who are open to His leading thorugh The Holy Spirit... The Bible is not a science book and it will not prove or disprove any science... The Bible is not a comprhensive history book and should not be used as such... as to the "origins" of The Bible... you will not find The Truth of the Bible in any department of "theology" of any university of man... If you want The Truth of The Bible do not look to any work of man.

The Faith of The True Christian is not based on The Bible... The Faith of The True Christian is in God alone... God is The Fact upon which all True Faith is based.

Answer 5

This same question gets asked here over and over again and again. The Bible has been around for thousands of years. It has proven itself over and over. The Old Testament was before Christ, and the New Testament was after. Surely they'd have to have different writers. Who cares how and when and by home was it compiled together. That is not an issue. The issue is where your soul will spend eternity.

Answer 6

My church taught about the sparring at Nicea, the conflict between Peter & Paul, Paul's revision of Jesus' sayings, the fact that Peter II was written a century after Peter died...............

.........wait, they never did.

None of it.

Answer 7

There are too many versions of the bible and it has been changed too many times.

Answer 8

The church has no authority over the Bible.
God help us all if they did.
It is because of the church that there is so much confusion.
Only 2 churches did God find worthy.....Its Bibical.

Answer 9

Not nearly enough!