The Bible and writing, how does it work?

Question

If there was a time when there was no tools for writing, how then can we be sure that what is in the bible is accurate? Have you ever tried the game where you whisper a secret, pass it down the line, then laugh at the end result, because it usually is no wheres near the original message?

Answer 1

Exactly.

And that's among people who know they're playing a game, think what it was like over not minutes but hundreds of years, and among people with various agendas. Warring factions, kings trying to maintain control over their subjects, lots of factors that could cause the Bible to be perverted into something unlike its original meaning and intent.

Answer 2

Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible and writing had been around for centuries by then.
The game analogy you used is inaccurate and here is why.
When the scriptures were read to the nation it wasnt only once and it wasnt whispered, and it wasnt whispered to the children to whisper to their children.
No it was read EVERY sabbath to all the people and if there was a question they could ask the priests.Those who read could get copies also.The scriptures were read from generation to generation.
Also the ones who copied them knew how many letters, commas periods etc were in each section and when they finished the copy if it was one short or one too many they tore it up and started over.
The dead sea scrolls contained the scroll (or book) of Isaiah.When translated into English it matched the King James version of Isaiah.
These are just a few examples of why I believe the Bible is accurate.

Answer 3

In the first mention of the heavenly bodies, the purpose of the Creator is clearly stated. Gen 1:14-19 reveals the fact that the stars were created, not only "to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth", but, they were set "for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years."
The stars are numbered and named. There are 12 signs of the Zodiac, called "the stars" in Genesis 37. The word Zodiac means degrees or steps, which mark the stages of the sun's path through the heavens, corresponding with the 12 months.
The stars were all named by God (Psalm 147:4). Most of these names have been lost; but over 100 are preserved through the Arabic and Hebrew, and are used by astronomers today, though their meaning is unknown to them.
These names and the 12 "signs" go back to the foundation of the world. Jewish tradition, preserved by Josephus, assures us that this Bible astronomy was invented by Adam, Seth,and Enoch.
We see evidence of it as early as Genesis 11:4 where we read of the Tower of Babel having "his top with the heavens". The words refer to the signs of the Zodiac, pictured at the top of the Tower, like the Zodiacs in the Temples of Denderah, and Esneh in Egypt.
The Babylonian "Creation Tablets" refer to them, though their primitive menaing had been either corrupted or lost. It is the same with the Greek myghology, which is a corruption of primitive truth which had been lost and perverted.
We have to remember that our written Scriptures began with Moses, say in 1490 B.C.;
and thus, for more than 2,500 years the revelation of the hope which God gave in Genesis 3:15 was preserved in the naming of the stars and their grouping in Signs and Constellations.
These groupings are quite arbitrary. There is nothing in the positions of the stars to suggest the pictures originally drawn around them. The Signs and Constellations were first designed and named; then, the pictures were drawn around them respectively. Thus the truth was enshrined and written in the heavens, where no human hand could touch it. In later years, when Israel came into the possession of the written "Scriptures of truth", there was no longer any need for the more ancient writing in the heavens. Hence, the original teaching gradually faded away, then the heathen, out of the smattering they had heard by tradition, evolved their cosmogonies and mythologies.

First Book: The Redeemer
(His first Coming)
Virgo = The prophecy of the promised seed
Libra = The Redeemer's work (grace)
Scorpio = The Redeemer's conflict
Sagittarius = The prophecy fulfilled

Second Bood: The Redeemed
(His work and its results)
Capricornus = The prophecy of deliverance
Aquarius = Results of work bestowed
Pisces = Results of work enjoyed
Aries = The prophesied deliverance fulfilled

on and on

Sagittarius = Hebrew , kesheth = an archer (Genesis 21:20) The brightest star , Hebrew
channun = the gracious one (Psalm 45:2)
Accadin, Nun-ki = Prince of the earth

etc. etc.
The stars were used as signs and to keep the truths of the Old Testament before it was written.
This goes into much depth in the Companion Bible Appendix 12,
an excellent bible for such in-depth studies.

Answer 4

When did writing actually start? The Egyptians had writing from early ages and Israel was in the area so they have had writing for a long time, even around the time the Bible was first composed.

Answer 5

Remarkably, this doesn't alter as much as you'd think when the stories are oral traditions. They might to some degree, and they get watered down in later generations long /after/ the invention of mass printing (look up some of the original Grimm fairy tales sometime, then compare to the 'official' version, then say, watch the Disney movie based on them), but prior to being written, they tend to be handed down almost verbatim.

Answer 6

Moses was commissioned by God to write down what He told him to. (Cf. Exodus 17:14, 34:27)

The Bible was not given by oral tradition (like the game telephone). It was written and then passed down by both oral and written means.

Answer 7

The new testament was written by the diciples of Jesus.

There was language then.

Written tradition existed much earlier than people think.

Answer 8

NO i havent try that game ;but it sounds like fun........However GODs bible also states that no one is to add or change ...and if you do you got to answer to him.....GOD is a smart GOD think about it.....HE made every thing .....

Answer 9

God inspired it.