2007-09-27 03:02:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laughable nonsense.
Beyond laughable...historically inaccurate on too many levels to even discuss.
2007-09-27 03:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Which part of the Bible? Certainly not the Old Testament, which was completed 500 BC. But maybe you are referring to the New Testament, or the gospels.
Mark's gospel was written about 70 AD, 40 years of the death of Jesus.
Edit:
This is from Wikipedia: Mark: c. 68–73
Matthew: c. 70–100 as the majority view; some conservative scholars argue for a pre-70 date, particularly those that do not accept Mark as the first gospel written.
Luke: c. 80–100, with most arguing for somewhere around 85
John: c. 90–110. Brown does not give a consensus view for John, but these are dates as propounded by C K Barrett, among others. The majority view is that it was written in stages, so there was no one date of composition
2007-09-27 03:13:28 · answer #2 · answered by Amelie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the books of the Bible were written across a long period of time. The earliest books of the Old Testament were hundreds of years before Christ. The books of the New Testament were written between approximately 60 AD and 300 AD, although I believe that at one point Pope Clement had a bunch of the gospels rewritten. In the late 300's, there was a Council of Nicaea where all the bishops of the northern Mediterranean church met and decided what would be in the Bible. There were about 150 different books available. They threw out about 90 of them and the majority of these did not survive to today. In the 1940's additional books were discovered in some caves in the desert and in Northern Africa. Since the majority of these books do not agree with the way modern day Christianity came out, they are ignored by today's Christians.
2007-09-27 03:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not true.
* Jesus had more than half of the Bible available when he was born.
* Other parts were written 20-30 years after his death and resurrection, definitely before year 70 when the Jerusalem temple was destroyed by the romans.
2007-09-27 03:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was written by about 40 men in about 1600 years, dating from 1500 B.C. to about 100 A.D. These men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21). They wrote not in words of human wisdom but in words taught by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2:13).
English Bible
The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in A.D. 1388.
The first American edition of the Bible was perhaps published some time before A.D. 1752.
The Bible has been translated in part or in whole as of 1964 in over 1,200 different languages or dialects.
The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton about A.D. 1228.
The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in A.D. 1448 and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in A.D. 1551.
There are 66 books in the Bible, 39 in the OT and 27 in the New. (Note: 3 x 9 = 27).
The OT has 929 chapters and 23,214 verses. The NT has 260 chapters and 7,959 verses.
In the OT, the longest book is Psalms. The shortest book is Obadiah.
In the NT, the longest book is Acts. The shortest is 3 John.
The word "God" occurs 4,379 times. The word "Lord" occurs 7,738 times.
Isaiah is referenced 419 times in 23 NT books; Psalms 414 times in 23 books; Genesis 260 times in 21 books.
2007-09-27 03:05:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
The Old Testament was completed about 400 BC.
The last book of the New Testament was written about 90 AD.
All the books of the Bible were put together around 350 AD.
2007-09-27 03:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by tim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish canon closed with the writing of Malachi (420 B.C.). The history to the 15th to 5th century B.C.
Nine authors penned the 27 divinely inspired books of the New Testament over a span of about 50 years between 40 A.D. and 90 A.D. Most of these were men who walked with Jesus and were eye witnesses to what they saw.
2007-09-27 03:18:33 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and no. regarding the new testament: the first collection of books that were called "the bible" and accepted as canon by the Catholic church were taken from a letter by a man named Athanasius, a bishop in the area of Syria in the 470's AD. during that time many different communities and church leaders used many different "gospels" and books (some of which made it in to what we know as the bible, and others that did not). until Athanasius, there was not a common consensus on what books were officially inspired and what books weren't.
of course the bible was again "revised" during the protestant reformation, and many books removed. so depending on whether or not you are a catholic or protestant, you bibles version may be as much as 1500 years old, or as little as 400 (since the KJV wasn't printed until 1611).
2007-09-27 03:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the Bible was written before He was born. However, He was in control all along.
The Bible, the Scriptures of the Old Testament and the New Testament, preserved for us in the Masoretic text (Old Testament) Textus Receptus (New Testament) and in the King James Bible, is verbally and plenarily inspired of God. It is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and altogether authentic, accurate and authoritative Word of God, therefore the supreme and final authority in all things (II Tim. 3:16-17; II Peter 1:21; Rev. 22:18-19
2007-09-27 03:06:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Each book in the new testament was written about 60-100 years after he died. The new testament in its current form was put together hundreds of years after his death
2007-09-27 03:05:49 · answer #10 · answered by ST 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not quite - it was finalised in its present form about 300 years after the death of Jesus.
2007-09-27 03:05:57 · answer #11 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋