I know there is a bunch of stories in the bible, but when did someone sit down and put all of them together?

Question

Also, do you think a book were someone just pick whatever they wanted to put in it should be taken serious.

Answer 1

There were a lot of religious writings that developed over the centuries, but only after the Babylonian Exile and the domination by Antiochus Epiphanes did anyone bother to create a Jewish canon, choosing some and rejecting others.

The New Testament was also collected out of a large number of Christian writings, some of which made it and some of which didn't. The Council of Nicaea in the 4th century decided that, by vote. The Book of James survived a close vote, and many Church Fathers felt that it was a mistake to have admitted Revelation to the canon.

Answer 2

There are 45 books of the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament that are sacred and are canonical, that is, the inspired Word of God.
"By the end of the fourth century, all 72 books were accepted by the Church as constituting the official canon of Sacred Scripture.

In the first few centuries after Christ, numerous writings in circulation were said to have being inspired by God. Some were written before Christ, and some written after Christ bore the names of the Apostels and were alleged to have been written by them. These are known as apocrypha, which means "hidden": they were supposedly hidden for generations, until they were finally discovered. The Catholic Church, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, infallibly pronounced which books of both the Old and New Testaments were truly written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and authored by the Apostles and other holy men. The Church made these pronouncements at the Council of Hippo in 393, and the Council of Carthage in 397. The Council of Trent in 1546 reaffirmed the declaration of both of these earlier councils concerning the canon of Sacred Scripture."

Answer 3

This happened on the evening of January 17th 0034.

Paddy O'Reilly had invented the world's very first computer. There was no electric of course so his wife had to sit on a bike, pedaling.

Everything was working fine until he went on line and found that he was the only one there - nobody else had invented a computer yet - he was alone.

After asking 43 questions on Yahoo Answers and answering them all himself, he got bored and looked around for another project.

He had been writing short stories on parchment for many years - never selling one - and they were all in a heap in his living room just behind the TV (which also wasn't working yet because he had forgotten to invent a TV camera).

He decided to put all his stories together on his computer and came up with a novel name for his new book - The Blabbel.

It never sold - because nobody else could actually read at that time, and poor Paddy died penniless.
A thousand years later after somebody had invented reading, his book was found - the cover had been in the sun for nearly a thousand years and the title The Blabble had faded and it looked like The Bible.

Paddy's wife, who was still pedalling outside, tried to tell them but they decided that anyone aged 1,058 and pedalling a bike with no wheels must be mad - (but flipping fit) - so ignored her.

When someone read the bit about a man banging his head and shouting "Jesus Christ, that hurt" it was completely misinterpretted . . . . .

Answer 4

The Bible is a series of 66 books written over a 1400 year span. The old testament is prophesy of Jesus Christ's coming. The new testament is prophesy fulfilled. Any additions to the Bible is not scripture.

Answer 5

Several publishers have had various versions of the bible printed over the years. They tend to have editoral meetings about it now and then, trying to jazz it up to keep it on the bestseller list.

Realistically, there are some problematic timelines associated with the bible and the people who read it (most notably, their insistance that the world was formed a few thousand years ago in the face of overwhelming evidence that they're off by a lotta millions of years) so the actual dates that the whole story line was constructed is pretty much up in the air.

Depends on who you ask.

Answer 6

The Bible is composed of 66 books written by over 40 different authors. It was not done by just one person who sat down and put them all together.

Answer 7

the Jews carried the stories orally, and were the first and only ones to write it down. (E.g., dead sea scrolls are part of it.) The Torah is basically the Old Testament.

After Christ was born, there were different people who compiled the New Testament.

Answer 8

I'm not sure what you mean. The Bible was written by several different people, based on their own experiences, educations, and teachings. It was then compiled into the book as we know it today.

Answer 9

people wrote them over time in this special book. people now are just copying them and selling them like it is nothing.

Answer 10

Shepherds.