Question for Christians about the bible?

Question

I was wondering how the bible was found?, who found it?, or did god tell someone to write it?.
thanks.

Answer 1

a science fiction author wrote it about 100 years ago...

Answer 2

The Bible did not begin as a text. It was recited, generation by generation, by trained story-tellers, as the sacred record of the Israelites and their encounters with God. With time and experience, more stories were added, but the tellers and the listeners were very careful to keep their stories consistent and accurately memorized.

It was only when the existence of the kingdom was threatened that they began to write the stories down. The Northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BCE, and refugees fled to the Southern kingdom of Judah. But their Bible was slightly different than that of the Southerners, so scribes carefully combined them and wrote them down in a continuous narrative. The priests added clarifying and legal information of their own, while another group that are often called the Deuteronomists added an extra moral emphasis to the record that promised God's favor on those who followed his Law and punishment on those who were unfaithful.

The kingom of Judah fell to Babylonia in 586 BCE and the scribes and leaders of Judah were exiled to the capital, Babylon. There, they refined the text of the Torah (he first five books) and many of the prophetic works to present the best statement of their faith. It was the only way for it to survive, since they had lost their Temple, king and land.

Miraculously, Babylon also fell, to Persia, and King Cyrus allowed the exiles to return to their homelands. Among those that did was a man named Ezra, who likely did the very last editing of the Torah to provide the work we have today. The books of the prophets and other writings were still being assembled and added to. It wasn't until a council of rabbis met around 90 CE that the canon of Jewish scripture was finalized, after the last Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.

Christians began as Jews, so their scriptures were the Jewish scriptures, or rather, a Greek translation of them called the Septuagint. They had no need for other books because they expected Christ's return within days or weeks. But as years went by, they became concerned that all the eyewitnesses to Christ were dying, so they began producing their own best recollections of Christ from the community's memory. Combined with several missionary letters (mostly from Paul), these accounts eventually formed the Christian New Testament.

The Bible was writen down by people, many people, but it was a work of and had the approval of communities that considered themselves the people of God. Books that didn't measure up were rejected. That is the nature of inspiration. God doesn't literally write books and leave them lying around to be discovered. God uses people to remember and transmit the record of the people's understanding of God.

Answer 3

The 66 books of the Bible were compiled over 1000 years, inspired by God, and reaching the form we know today by the 4th century A.D. The many translations and revisions have been carefully compared to the earliest texts for accuracy and completeness. There was no one author, just God's divine providence. It is the most studied and copied book in history, a wonderful guide for good living. Merry Christmas!

Answer 4

first let me ask you do you ever read your Bible it tells you about the 40 man that wrote the Bible the Bible wasn't wrote by one man.
and God told each one of these 40 man what to say word for word.
you know if you would take 15-mins each day or a half hour to read your Bible from the very begaining to the end of your Bible with in a years time you would be done reading your Bible!
the Bible is the most awesome book in the whole wide world to read.
it'a all about Jesus and his Father! about Jesus Mother! and his Father.
when i read my Bible many many times I could always picture what it was saying in my mind and I could honesty ! I could see and I felt as if I was there.
you can start your new year in reading your Bible.

Answer 5

The
bible is a compilation of books written by different authors inspired by
God to do so. The story of Christ in the gospels was written by his apostles and are fact. The Jewish historian Josephus Flavius confirms this in his history of the Jews prior to the dispora.

Answer 6

People wrote down as God guided them what to write.

For the Old Testament:
Moses wrote the first five books, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Joshua wrote Joshua. The prophet Samuel might have written Judges, Ruth, along with 1 and 2 Samuel. 1,2 Kings and 1,2 Chronicles, not sure. Ezra wrote Ezra. Nehemiah wrote Nehemiah, and etc etc.
For the New Testament, Paul wrote most of it except for the Gospels, titled after the authors.

And with all of these authors through out time, God ensures His plan with common themes, the most prominent being the saving power of Jesus Christ. Through Him, everyone can be forgiven of sin. All you have to do is accept His free gift of grace and believe in Him.

Answer 7

Imagine Christopher Columbus wrote a book, add a chapter by the pilgrim fathers, then lots more chapters by each founding father/president substituting Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar for Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse. Then perpetrate a genocide against the sub-humans with a claim to your land. That's your old testament.
Then swap Joseph Smith for Jesus and that's the new testament for some other people.
Does it make sense? Well not for me either.
The main thing is, grab the land and make a fast buck.
"In god we trust, all others pay cash" unless you want a sub-pime mortgage.

Really it's all Jewish mythology written to justify their land grab x thousand years ago.
How would you feel being a homeless Caananite/Philistine/Palestinian?

Answer 8

There is an essay "Age of Reason Part 2" by Tomas Paine. In this essay he proves that the books of the Bible are in fact NOT inspired by a flawless being. He is a believer in God and wrote his essay because he felt the cruel God it portrayed was not possible. He uses the Bible itself to prove his point. It is very interesting and he does in fact prove his point.

Answer 9

the Bible wasn't found it is actual text written over several hundred years believed to inspired by the Holy Spirit.

somebody tell mislead friend above the word flat doesn't even appear in Luke

Answer 10

the Scriptures as we know it was written over about 2500 years. It is our understanding that YHVH directed its writing. Moses wrote much of the early work (the first 5 books) and He might have written the book of Job. about 40 other people have written parts of it.

Answer 11

In 300 ad the council of Nicea (I can't spell), a group of elders from various belief traditions, got together and chose from their religious teachings which to include in the general consensus. Voila, the Bible.