what are some important facts about the Bible?

Answer 1

John 1:1-5
The Word Became Flesh
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.



1 John 1:1-4

The Word of Life
1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to make our joy complete.

The Word is Jesus and He was there in the beginning.


I would also like to add that the Word is what will judge us...so read it, it is an open-book test.

Answer 2

Actual Facts about the Bible:
1. It was compiled at the end of the fourth century and beginning of the fifth by St. Jerome and the Catholic Church.

2. The Duetrocanoniocal books (from the Septuagint) were not added at the Council of Trent but where always there they were just not declared official canon until then.

3. It is not a literal book but a sociocultural anthropolgy.

4 the Old Testament was compiled by 72 Rabbi called The Men of the Great Assembly, bringing together years of writings into books like Jerome did the New Testament.

5. The bible being historically accurate is not upheld among biblical scholars and considered very inaccurate to historical timelines.


EDIT: Silver states that it is a fact that there are 66 books in the bible. That is inaccurate depending on which translation of the bible you have the number of books can go up to 72. Which then also changes his other lists of facts. Amny people express "facts" about the bible that change based on the translation you are reading.

Answer 3

Inspired by God though the hands of 40 men over a period of 1500 years and is useful to anyone. 2 Timothy 3:16-17.

Answer 4

Books in the Bible: 66
Shortest verse in the Bible: John 11:35
Longest verse in the Bible: Esther 8:9
Words in the Bible: 773,692

Answer 5

The Old and New Testament are equally important.
Mathew 13
52He said to them, "Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old."

Answer 6

In the Bible there is much pseudepigrapha or intentional forgery. Remember the book, "Hitler's Diary", which was later discovered to not have been written by Hitler. The Bible has it also, according to biblical scholars.

Answer 7

Different translations give different meanings and wordings for the same verse.
I get that often here....I quote a verse, and someone who has only a King James says, "that's not in the Bible!"
It is, if they're looking at a New American version!

Answer 8

The OT was a compilation of ideas and thoughts taken from a hundred other cultures and people were told it was gods word. The NT was written by dozens of people from 20 to 325 years after Christ and was comiled as a political tool to consolodate and empire.

Answer 9

It is the inspired word of God.
Men wrote it. It has been translated into every language.
Most Christians carry one with them to church.
It is divided into The Old Testament and The new Testament.

Answer 10

How about this one, courtesy of Dave Thomas of SCTV. "contained in the begininning there changed into nuthin. Then God said enable there be elementary, and there changed into nonetheless nuthin, except yuz ought to be sure it."