Was the bible really written by power seeking priests?

Question

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Answer 1

yes.

Answer 2

No. Men of good will seeking to worship the true God were used as secretaries are today to write the Bible. None got extra points for writings. Most in the Hebrew scriptures were already rich heads of households. Solomon and David were kings. Moses already had all the power he could use.

In the Greek scriptures, the apostles had enough responsibilities that power was the least of their concerns.

Answer 3

Possible. We don't know the economic circumstances or financial motivation of those who +transcribed the Word of God+ for us.
So what if they were power hungry priests? Are today's politicians so different?
The Bible, however, is the inspired Word of the Living God and is therefore correct no matter _who_ put it to paper.

Notice that I said "correct" NOT "unchanged" as some other folks will say about their book.

Answer 4

Well, let's see. The priests live in a palace-like home and all the worshipers bring 10% of their hard-earned pay right to the door and hand it over!!!!!

All the priests have to do is sprinkle water (or blood) around once a week and mumble some jibberish, Raise their hands to the sun and sing hallejuh. Then they can go back inside and eat the feast the worshippers have brought them.

Hmmm. Sounds like quite a crafty idea.

Answer 5

The Bible is literally FULL of human failings. Three quick examples:

1. Adam and Eve fail to follow God's commands and get booted from Eden.

2. David has a man killed to cover up the fact that he slept with the guy's wife. (That's a twofer!)

3. Jesus is betrayed unto death by one of his closest 12 disciples, Judas, who then hangs himself.

I don't think that humans generally want to write about their failings for future generations to read about. You may not believe the Bible is the inspired word of God but it is just silly to think it is about power or the history written by the winners.

Answer 6

If so (and I assume you're talking about the Old Testament), I would have expected them to put more in there about the power they allegedly sought. I would not expect them to write in that they could not own any land, nor to put such restrictions on their behavior. Moreover, I would not expect them to harshly criticize the actions of people like Samuel's sons, who 1 Samuel 8 says "did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain," nor of Nadab and Abihu who wanted to worship God their own way and offer "strange fire." And, of course, the New Testament would hardly be silent on the question of priests except to say that Jesus is our one and only hihgh priest.

These things would be very strange if the Bible was as you suggest.

Answer 7

Depends on which book you are referring to.

Genesis and Exodus were written by a collector who assembled much of the Hebrew oral and written tradition. Leviticus was written mostly by an early preistly caste. Numbers is mostly a collection of census records. Deuteronomy was written by a later priestly class and passed off as a rediscovered early book.

And so on.

Answer 8

1Chr.6:1-15; Collect their names and read about them, the bible is named for prophets, not priest.

At year 2513, 1110 years, 39 books, many write, done 443 before Christ.

Noah was year 1656 in flood, he had 350 years life, Gen.9:28,29; Shem had 502 year life Gen.11:10; Terah born year 222 after the flood, died age 205 Gen.11:32; and Abraham was age 75, Gen.12:4; at 427 years after the flood.
Moses at 430 years after Abraham, and Joseph at Gen.50:26; died 712 years after the flood. [ Evident that Genesis is compiled by Moses as is Job, he died 777 years after the flood ].
Moses generation four Exo.6:16-23,26; age 80, Exo.7:7; 12:40,41; Gal.3:16-18; 857 years after the flood to give law of land and laws of God to the family of Abraham and in 40 years at 897 years after flood Moses dies at age 120
Deut.34:7;
Joshua at Josh.5:6,10,12; ends 40 years, 14th day in New Year and this begans the Judges, Judges 11:26; is 300 years to be 1198 after flood, the priest may keep the details to Prophet Judge Samuel and he will compile it.
Acts 13:20; 450 and Exodus was 857 is 1307 after the flood, 1103 before Christ. Samuel gives David's family Ruth 4:18-22; David is anointed and Samuel dies. 1Ki.6:1; Solomon is 480 years to began the temple after the death of Moses at 897 years after flood, 1377 after flood, he dies in 36 years at 1413 after Flood and 997 before Christ so Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs and Song of Solomon is to be followed by 1 & 2 Kings and 1 & 2 Chronicles 14 books at 997 before Christ. Judah kings will end in 391 years and [ 12 prophets write ], Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel are being done, 1804 years after the flood, after 70 years on down to 443 before Christ, Ezra, Nehemaiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, will complete the Old Testament.
No Priest has a book named after him.

Answer 9

No, the bible was written by several apostles and scribes.

There was a council of arguably power hungry priests known as the Council of Nicaea that decided what to include and what to leave as "apocrypha".

Answer 10

The men who wrote the individual books were inspired men of God. the catholic priests, who brang those books together to form the bible, were idiots. They tried to hide the writing, keep it hidden.

Answer 11

Power seeking priests? If that was the case wouldn't they have signed their names? If they had, they'd be more famous than Shakespeare.