where did the Bible come from? and who gathered all the books from different times to make it a Bible?

Question

did God compiled the Bible and handed it down to Martin Luther for final editing and revision?

Answer 1

martin luther did nothing more than corrupt the church jesus established and corrupt the bible. a basic study of history will reveal that the bible was written by and for the church, the bible did not just fall from heaven and the bible did not predate the church.

the protestant bible of today follows the jewish bible, those who where opposed to jesus. initially the first bible printed and the king james version included the 7 disputed books that were later deleted.
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the issue is to wide to cover in just a few short paragraphs and i don't like to answer with copy and paste as anyone can do that.

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Answer 2

The Catholic church compiled and confirmed all the authentic books of the old testament, wrote all the books of the new testament, and infallibly canonized every book that is included in what we now know as "The Bible" by the end of the 4th century.

Most of the "heavy lifting" on the job was done by St. Jerome, who besides being a great saint and a holy priest, was a gifted language scholar who had unparalleled access to the original source documents ... many of which no longer even exist.

Jerome was also a lot closer (in time) to the whole and real truth, as much of it had just recently been unearthed in the holy land, in his day.

The bible remained in the common language of the people, complete and undefiled for a thousand years, before the protestant reformers decided that Jesus and the only church that he ever founded, authorized, empowered, and eternally guaranteed, had made some mistakes.

So the protestants unilaterally removed seven of the old testament books, even though they had absolutely no authority to do so.

Then, they began to re-write the scriptures in their own image, introducing damnable heresies, by the score.

Soon, much of the world had been deceived, and no one knew what might happen, as a result.

Some thought it might be a sign that the great apostasy was upon us, and that satan had once again been released upon the earth.

And indeed, it took some 500 years to see exactly what effect all this would have on modern society and on the world, as a whole.

Welcome to the 21st century!

Answer 3

What man knows today as the Bible is in fact a collection of ancient divinely inspired documents. These were composed and compiled in written form over a period of 16 centuries. All together this collection of documents forms what Jerome well described in Latin as the Bibliotheca Divina, or the Divine Library. This library has a catalog, or official listing of publications, which is limited to those books pertaining to the scope and specialization of that library. All unauthorized books are excluded. Jehovah God is the Great Librarian who sets the standard that determines which writings should be included. So the Bible has a fixed catalog that contains 66 books, all products of God’s guiding holy spirit.
The collection, or list, of books accepted as genuine and inspired Scripture is often referred to as the Bible canon. Originally, the reed (Hebrew, qa·neh′) served as a measuring rod if a piece of wood was not at hand. The apostle Paul applied the Greek word ka·non′ to a “rule of conduct” as well as to the “territory” measured out as his assignment. (Gal. 6:16, footnote; 2 Cor. 10:13) So canonical books are those that are true and inspired and worthy to be used as a straightedge in determining the right faith, doctrine, and conduct. If we use books that are not “straight” as a plumb line, our “building” will not be true, and it will fail the test of the Master Surveyor. Much translation as well as printing was undertaken by private groups in the 16th and 17th centuries. As early as 1800, the Bible had appeared in whole or in part in 71 languages.

Answer 4

Ezra and Nehemiah gathered together all the books of the Old Testament during their time and gave the returning Jews the Old Testament as we know it today.

The Christians began gathering the books of the New Testament together by the end of the 1st Century. They began copying them, and presented every new Pastor who had the Laying on of Hands at least the copy of one gospel. But when possible they presented them the entire New Testament.

This came to be known as the Treasure of the Pure in centuries to come. In the Western parts of the Roman Empire the Old Italia New Testament was hand-copied by believers throughout all the centuries. In the West the Greek New Testament was hand-copied by the believers in what is called the Byzantine Texts.

Every book of the Bible was written by a Prophet, Apostle, or someone interviewing them. For example John Mark wrote Peter's Gospel. In our Bibles it is called the Gospel of Mark.

Answer 5

The bishops of the Catholic Church compiled the Bible from Jewish and early Catholic texts. They began the job, at the instruction of the Pope, at the Council of Hippo in 394 AD, and completed it at the Council of Carthage in 397. This is how we know that nothing in the bible can conflict with Catholic teaching. The bishops of the Catholic Church, in compiling a book of their own writings for the use of their own Church, obviously did not include anything contrary to the God-given teaching of the Church. the Bible agrees with the teaching of the Catholic Church because it IS the teaching of the Catholic Church, written down by early Catholic leaders.

Answer 6

You asked for it.

The Biblical canon is the set of books Christians regard as divinely inspired and thus constituting the Christian Bible. Though the Early Church used the Old Testament according to the canon of the Septuagint (LXX), the apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures; instead the New Testament developed over time.

The writings attributed to the apostles circulated amongst the earliest Christian communities. The Pauline epistles were circulating in collected form by the end of the first century AD. Justin Martyr, in the early second century, mentions the "memoirs of the apostles," which Christians called "gospels" and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament.[3] A four gospel canon (the Tetramorph) was in place by the time of Irenaeus, c. 160, who refers to it directly.[4] By the early 200's, Origen may have been using the same 27 books as in the modern New Testament, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of Hebrews, James, II Peter, II and III John, and Revelation (see also Antilegomena).[5] Likewise by 200 the Muratorian fragment shows that there existed a set of Christian writings somewhat similar to what is now the New Testament, which included the four gospels and argued against objections to them.[6] Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings were accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the second century.[7]

In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of exactly the same books as what would become the New Testament canon,[8] and he used the word "canonized" (kanonizomena) in regards to them.[9] The African Synod of Hippo, in 393, approved the New Testament, as it stands today, together with the Septuagint books, a decision that was repeated by Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419. These councils were under the authority of St. Augustine, who regarded the canon as already closed.[10] Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382, if the Decretum Gelasianum is correctly associated with it, issued a biblical canon identical to that mentioned above,[11] or if not the list is at least a sixth century compilation.[12] Likewise, Damasus's commissioning of the Latin Vulgate edition of the Bible, c. 383, was instrumental in the fixation of the canon in the West.[13] In 405, Pope Innocent I sent a list of the sacred books to a Gallic bishop, Exsuperius of Toulouse. When these bishops and councils spoke on the matter, however, they were not defining something new, but instead "were ratifying what had already become the mind of the Church."[14] Thus, from the fourth century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon (as it is today),[15] and by the fifth century the East, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.[16] Nonetheless, a full dogmatic articulation of the canon was not made until the Council of Trent of 1546 for Roman Catholicism,[17] the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for the Greek Orthodox.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

uhhh no it was written by man over time then King James got a bunch of scholars together and told em to put 'em all together and thats where the bible comes from. and btw, bible means library. its a library of 66 books.


DAMN YOU PEOPLE ARE REALLY MENTALLY DUMB. CATHOLICS ADDED TO THE BIBLE WHATEVER THEY WANTED. THE MASSES ARE ASSES, AND THE MASSES ARE CATHNOLIC............ **sigh**