Who here thinks God wrote the "Bible"?

Question

Schneb, I'll put you down as "didn't not write"

Answer 1

of course He didn't...neither did Jesus. the bible was written by sheep-herders and such. kind of like the game "telephone". the message has been passed down for centuries...i'm sure it has been quite muddled.

Answer 2

I do.
Try getting any group of people together to write out a book about God and His works, and it will be the most contradictory, incomprehensive collection of writings imaginable. That's because no two people can agree 100%.
Now, if you consider the many different people God used in writing the Bible, different walks of life, from different continents, different time periods, and it all fits into one complete comprehensive and harmonious whole, there can be only ONE reason this would be possible...there was only ONE author, writing through these people.
Just for fun, try to figure out the odds of all the prophecies being fulfilled 100% accurately, and you'll see the odds are too high to have it happen by chance. So far, 100% accuracy rate. It's a sure bet all will be filled 100% accurately.

Answer 3

Nope ... He didn't write it, I don't think. I may be wrong, but I don't even recall God instructing people to pick up pen and paper and write the Bible. What He DID do was acknowledge that His Word would be handed down from generation to generation ... in other words, He knew that it would happen. I mean, you can only go so long with oral tradition before someone will want to preserve it in written form so that nothing would be lost. If you think about it, it really makes sense. God didn't tell David to praise Him in psalms. Because David loved God, he was moved to do it himself. God didn't tell Matthew, Mark, Luke or John to write their accounts of Jesus. Because they were in awe of the events of Jesus' life (and ressurection), they did this themselves. The same went with Paul (Saul).

In fact, before the Holy Bible came to be, there were all of these individual accounts from the Koran - which was based on the religion of Islam ... and the Torah - which was based on Christianity and Judaism. There was also the Gnostic Bible, among all kinds of other Scriptures scattered here and there. King James came along centuries later and decided to collect different accounts of these Scriptures with the intention of making a so-called Universal Bible. Problem with that is, that old James neglected to put everything in his version. The parts that he couldn't stomach, or that offended sensibilities, or just didn't make sense to him, he instructed his scribes to leave out. That's one of the reasons that we're 'stumbling around in the dark', so to say. Because we don't have full access to everything that we could've had access to.

Oh, well ... Sorry I got off the subject.

Answer 4

Well... God didn't WRITE the bible. Man did, but it was all inspired by GOD. I don't know if you are a Christian. If you aren't it may be hard for you to understand it, but see...Those men were able to write God's word through the holy spirit. The Holy spirit was telling them what to write. So in fact God didn't write it, but the bible is God's will and words!

Answer 5

God wrote the Bible through the hands of man. God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own hand, and His love for Israel He inscribed IN His own hands! - Isa 49:16

I work at the home base of a global software company. The president is a very powerful man, well known in Washington DC. Now, if my boss sent me a memo asking me to design a project, and I found out that it was actually written by his secretary's assistant, should I ignore it or fulfill it? Is it the word of my boss or a lowly temp?

God is the Author of the Bible--yes, this can be proven. Penned by temps? Definitely. Should it be obeyed, or ignored? Is it truly God's Word, or the writings of mere man?

If one chooses to ignore the Bible because it is "written by man", then that individual should not be surprised if the Boss fires them for inactivity. ref. Matthew 25:26-29

“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’"

This, of course can be proven because man is incapable of writing prophecy. God uses this as a challenge to not only prove that the Bible is His Word, but that the Bible is the ONLY holy book that can do this--thus proving its Authorship. In fact, I have more proof that the Bible IS the Word of God than those that state otherwise.
http://schnebin.blogspot.com/2007/04/proof-of-god.html

Answer 6

The only thing written by the finger of god was the 10 commandments. the rest was by men and the new testament says that they wrote it like wind in the sails of a boat. i.e. god blew the wind, they were the boat.

so yeah, god wrote it. It depends how far you want to take it, but you could argue that god even wrote your question.

Answer 7

Initially the bible was the word of God, but humans corrupted it , and it is corrupted to such a level that it cannot be relied upon as the word of God.

Answer 8

I believe he inspired it and got Jewish men to do the actual writing. If I was the king of all creation I would have someone do the actual writing too while I just tell someone what to write.

Answer 9

In the entire world , there is not a single word written by god .All of his "words " were sent mentally . Some would call it a message from god , others call it superstitious imagination .

Answer 10

Through inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 11

No. Man wrote it but God was setting right beside him looking over his shoulder telling him every word to write. If he had written even one word wrong God would have sent him straight to hell.