how many people wrote the bible?
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The Bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by over 40 different authors from all walks of life: shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers and kings. Despite these differences in occupation and the span of years it took to write it, the Bible is an extremely cohesive and unified book.\n\nMoses. He wrote the first five books of the Bible, referred to as the Pentateuch: the foundation of the Bible.\n\nThe Apostle Paul, wrote 14 books (over half) of the New Testament
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Actually, God is the Author of the gospel of Mark. The bible is the Inspired Word of God, written down by human hands for the benefit of mankind.
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Remember, men wrote the bible...regardless of the fact that it may have been "influenced" by God...it was still men.\n\nHad God decided to influence a group of women to write the bible (or if a group of women just did it...whatever) it would have been Adam who ate the fruit, men who serve women, etc etc.
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King James.  He wrote the last and most commonly used version.  boy did he change things !!!!\n\n\ntom
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There are a lot of contradictions in the Bible. Kind of makes sense, considering that the four gospels were just four of dozens that were picked and chosen into one book. So, with all those accounts and perspectives, that humans witnessed, there's bound to be some difference.
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The bible, was put together from a group of writings that a bunch of men did a long time ago, Someone got smart and decided to put it together into 1 book, the only bad thing is they LEFT OUT alot of things as well. They should have left it alone and let us decide what we felt we needed to know.
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The oldest book in print today!\nbut what about the new & more new chapters being included??\nwhy are their new testaments & old ones???\nWhy not one complete book like the HOLY QURAN.\n\nActually the only book that has not yet been changed to a full stop or an alphabet is the holy Quran.\n\nJust tell me How many People have learnt Bible by heart.\nExact word to word...\nI guess none...\nNot even the Pope has learnt bible by heart....\n\nBUT \n\nQuran is the only book that can be & IS being learnt by heart by billions of muslims.....\n\n& exact word by word....\nfrom first alphabet to the last one...\n\n& no one can make the entire billions of muslims forget the Quran....\n\nEven if all the written Quran is lost, the billions of muslims can recreat it in written form exactly word by word....\n\nNow tell me how many christians U know have learnt Bible by heart??\nJust seen around, in ur family or friends or in the church...\nCan u find atleast 10 people who have learnt Bible by heart word by word???\n\n\nHere I can find 17 in my relatives who are Quran learners by heart...\n\n\nSo now tell ....\nWhich holy book is more taken care of??\nWhich is same as it was at the time it came upon us...??\nQuran is the right answer....
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Remember that the Bible was continuously rewritten "translated" by men, Need I say more?
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As far as what's actually listed by number, God killed over two million people in the bible.  Satan killed ten people (the sons and daughters of Job).\n\nhttp://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-has-killed-more-satan-or-god.html
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The Bible was written by more than forty different authors.  I could go into the different parts and their function throughout history, but I'll just be short.  Despite the variety of the authors and the many different types of writings in the Bible, Christians believe that "All scripture is God breathed" (2 Timothy 3:16), and a group of believers at one point decided which writings were part of the "canon" of scripture.\n\nMany people believe that the Bible often contradicts itself, and sometimes it seems that it might.  However, closer study and learning of the context reveals the story of the God of creation and his desire to redeem his people throughout history.  It is the written word of God, and through the preaching of the Word people can come to salvation.
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In written form through the Bible.
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There were other humans that the bible doesn't speak on much.
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Let me give you a bit of background that - although is controversial - is accepted to some extent.\n\nThe first 5 books of the Bible known as the Penteteuch - were "compiled" by Moses - however, I don't agree that he wrote them all. What's accepted is that the Levites and the tribes of Israel wrote different portions - however many Biblical classes will accept that Moses "wrote" them. \n\nThey used Hebrew - in fact, most of the OT is written in Hebrew sans a few written in Aramaic. (I know Daneil was written in Aramaic)\n\nAs for where it was written - this is total conjecture and speculation. \n\nThe NT was written by the apostles - and the latter chapters following the gospel were mostly written by Paul, some Peter with the help of other apostles. \n\nThe Epistles for most part were written by Paul - and when he wrote them is pretty clear - around 50 AD. Revelation is written near 100 AD by John who wrote it on Patmos. \n\nThe NT was written in Greek. \n\nHope that helps.
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How the Word of God came to be written\nOLD TESTAMENT\nThe authors of Hebrew Scriptures are not as identifiable as those of the New Testament. The Books arose in the midst of the law given by Moses and the prophets sent by God to the children of Israel. The first 5 books (The Law) were written by Moses almost entirely. The remainder of the Old Testament is composed of the prophets and writings in the Hebrew canon, whereas the English Bible includes the following categories: historical books, poetic books, and prophetic books. These books include such authors as Samuel, David, Joshua, Solomon, and the Major Prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and a number of lesser-known figures who wrote smaller books called the Minor Prophets. Each of these authors presents his words as being the Word Of God.\n\nNEW TESTAMENT\nThe New Testament was written by apostles of Jesus Christ and companions of the Apostles, Letters were written to individuals, churches, or larger groups of persons either to conform the truth of Christianity, engender belief in Christ, Correct problems in the local churches, or argue against error. The Book of Revelation also seeks tp present God’s plan for the end of the age.\n\nHOW THE INSPIRED WRITTINGS WERE PASSED DOWN\nOLD TESTAMENT\nThe Old Testament was written between 1440 B.C. and approximately 400 B.C.\nThe Laws of Moses was maintained in the Hebrew community by the priests of the temple. Later books continued to be deposited with these leaders until the destruction of the temple and then found their way into the teaching community begun by Ezra and continued in the synagogues. Trained scribes copied biblical texts by hand until the modern printing press came into use. The copies of the Masoretes of the ninth century A.D. are very close to the recently discovered Dead Sea scrolls, which originated a thousand years earlier.\n\nNEW TESTAMENT\nThe New Testament books were copied by local Christian communities and passed from one to another for decades before an entire collection was made. Since the early letters were written on papyrus, they wore out rapidly and required regular copying. In the early fourth century A.D., fifty copies of the entire Old and New Testament Greek Scriptures were made at the order of the first Christian emperor, Contantine. It is likely that the Vaticanus and Sinaticus codexes, two of the longest early manuscripts to survive, originated from this order.\n\nWHAT IS THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE?\nThe word canon is a word used to indentify the writings of the prophets, the apostles, and their companions, which are inspired by God and authoritative for truth pertaining to doctrine and life. It means “rule” or “standard.” A book is not inspired because it is declared to be conocical but is considered inspired. Therefore, the church discovered the canonicity of the Old Testament books; it did not determine or cause their canonicity.
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There are (at least) three attitudes about the writing of the Bible:\n\n1. Many believers think that the writers received the words directly from God, as in a vision, and wrote them word-for-word the way you would transcribe a tape recording. In this case the words are literally "God's Words".  Since most of these writers wrote in languages that most of us can't read directly, there are lots of arguments about what they really meant. \n\n2. Other believers think that the writers were inspired by experiences they had and felt that God would want them to write a book about it. In this case, it would be "Inspired by God", which is  a bit different from a word-for-word transcription. It could still be accurate history and very useful and helpful.\n\n3. Non-believers seem to think that the whole Bible is merely a group of fictional works that come out of various writer's imaginations.\n\nThe best thing to do is read the Bible for yourself and decide what you think. Don't let other people tell you what to think or believe.
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The Bible was written by people in the very early stages of mankind's existence, before we understood astronomy and how the planets and heavenly bodies worked.  We didn't get a good understanding of these things until the telescope was invented many centuries later.  There are many things in the Bible that we now understand through science, but at the time of the Bible's writing, it wasn't understood so the authors put down the best explanation they had at the time.  Even God's influence helped them keep it simple, in terms that the people of the time could understand.
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Well God is active even now. Only the difference is that it is not reported anymore. Just think that at any given point of time there are more than 200 factors at work, trying to wipe out human race and destroy this planet (germs, space bodies, weapons and ofcourse men!).\nThen why is it that we still exist? Rack your brain and you'll get the answer.\n\nBible was not written by God. It is just an interpretation of facts according to several different people. All of these stories regarding Jesus were initially expressed in the form of several gospels, of which many were discarded (see gospel of Judas, gospel of Mary Magdalene) and those of Luke, Mark, Mathew etc were accepted.\n\nSo bible did not ARRIVE BY FAX FROM HEAVEN\nIt was written by us so Ver2.0 is also our responsibility.