How was the Bible compiled?

Question

I know that many different authors were inspired by God when they wrote these books, but who chose what writing or which of Paul's letters to put in there. How was the compilation of the Bible decided. Good sources or good explanations please. Thanks :)

Answer 1

http://www.gotquestions.org/original-Bible.html

Answer 2

It was complied by the divine inspiration of God through his Catholic Church.



The Canon was finalized by Pope Damasus I at the council of Rome in 382 AD. The canon they decided on is the same Canon we use today.

Interesting Points in the Bible:

• 382AD-420 AD The bible was translated by St. Jerome from the languages of Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke), Hebrew (the language of the Jews) and Greek (one of the languages of the Roman Empire) into Latin (the common language of the time). This opened up the ability to translate the bible into other languages.

• The only record of Hanukkah is found in the Catholic bible in the books of 1 and 2 Maccabees.

• It took 425 sheep skins to produce 1 bible. Writing on Sheep skin is called Parchment and it would cost you about 10 years of income if you wanted to buy one.

• 1226 Steven Langton divided the Bible into Chapters.

• 1456 the very first book ever printed on a printing press was the Catholic bible, the Gutenberg Bible.

• 1551 Robert Stephen inserted verse numbers into the bible. i.e. John 3:16 (3=Chapter, 16=verse)



"There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church. ....As a matter of fact, if we Catholics believed all of the untruths and lies which were said against the Church, we probably would hate the Church a thousand times more than they do."



-----Archbishop Sheen



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Answer 3

The bible was compiled in the 4th century, after the Pope noticed that there were problems among the different Christian communities who were paying more attention to some scriptures than to others, not all consistent with Jesus' message and teachings. It was leading to heresies. So the Pope put Jerome in charge of the committee to round up all the scripture out there, review it and decide which ones were consistent with Jesus and which ones were not. Those that were went into the bible. The Jewish scripture that was put into the bible tended to foretell Jesus', as the Messiah, coming.

Answer 4

It was written by about 40 men over a period of some 1,600 years, dating from around 1500 B.C. to about 100 A.D. These men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21 1 Corinthians 2:13).



Three quarters of what we now call this collection of 66 books was already written, in Hebrew mainly, hundreds of years before Jesus was born. These Hebrew scriptures were the scriptures of Jesus and the apostles. They had been translated into Greek by then. This was known as the Septuagint. So when Jesus read from the scroll of Isaiah the prophet, he was reading a Greek translation. Very few Jewish people retained knowledge of Hebrew after the release from Babylonian captivity 400 years earlier. That is why the Hellenised Jews brought in the Greek translation.



So the Hebrew canon was never an issue. The writings between 400 B.C. and Christ's birth were historical, in the main, but not contenders for being 'inspired of God' (known as the Apocrypha).



Before the end of the first century, all the Christian scriptures had been written (in Greek) and were circulating amongst the growing and far-flung Christian congregations in the Roman empire. Some Gnostic writings also arose and the apostles warned against Gnostic influences. There was some debate about a few of the apostolic writings, such as the Revelation, but the matter was settled at two Church Councils (Hippo in AD 393 and Carthage in 397). The Council of Nicaea in 325 had nothing whatsoever to do with the canon of scripture! They settled on 46 books for the OT and 27 for the NT - just what the later Protestants had in 1529, though the 7 Deutero-canonicals were put by Luther into an Appendix at the end of the Bible. The settled canon was exactly the same back then as for the much later Council of Trent in 1563. From around 1826 the Protestants didn't include the Apocrypha, even as an Appendix.

Answer 5

Jesus Christ's Catholic Church compiled,preserved,wrote the New Testament, and canonized the Holy Bible in the 4th century under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.



THE BIBLE CAME FROM THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH DID NOT COME FROM THE BIBLE. Christianity existed over 300 years without one single Bible Christian.



Catholic Christian †

Answer 6

the fellow who grow to be talking about the canon is real. They were very in contact that each thing in the bible grow to be absolutely the actuality. There are different writings outdoors of the bible that were about the existence of Jesus. The 4 gospels are written be 4 diverse human beings and they do to conflict with one aother. also, there have been such various eye witnesses to each and each of the events that occurred. different books that were later written do no longer come from eyewitnesses. Lee Strobel's (former athiest) "Case for Christ" is an outstanding e book that describes each and each of the diverse information that Jesus and the bible are real.

Answer 7

by the Nicene Catholic/Orthodox Apostolic Christian Church ( Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox and Oriental and Assyrian Orthodox ,while they were still one Church)



which chose the LXX Septuagint/Vulgate Alexandrian Canon of the Old Testament ( the catholic and Orthodox with the -at least-7 books left out by theprobably later Pharisee Canon)



and they discerned, circulated,collected, canonized, copied and passed down not only the OT canon but the new Testament Canon which the later Protestants accepted as authoritative



( thus the Protestants are depending on the older Catholic and Orthodox Churches as authorities in addition to the Bible as well as Apostolic tradition out of which the new Testament came and in which the whole Bible is to be interpreted)



Especially noteworthy are the Church Councils of Hippo and Carthage at the end of the 4th century AD and Fathers of the Church such as St Athanasius and Popes like Damasus in authorizing the present canon of the new Testament ( which books got in and which claimants did not)

Answer 8

There are many authors, and there were many books contending for a place in the canon. The Catholic Church chose the books, compiled the Bible and closed the canon. It took over 27 years for this process to be completed.



Here is an excellent site:

http://www.catholicfidelity.com/apologetics-topics/bible/a-history-of-the-bible-by-victor-r-claveau/

Answer 9

It grew gradually out of the Hebrew bible and what books were included depended on the relevant Christian denomination. If you were Roman Catholic your bible included for example the Wisdom of Solomon, whereas the Jews exclude it. The New testament grew by accretion too. At the time of St Irenaeus (2nd century AD) there were less books in it than 200 yrs later when Philemon, Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 3 John and Jude were also included. Any further comments would be speculation.

Answer 10

The source for this is the NT scriptures themselves. If you go to my profile and get my web address from there, and get past the annoying adds (free website) there is a page in the "Basic Bible Four" section (bottom part of that main index page). The link is called "The New Testament How was its canon assembled? When? "



This should give you what you seek.

Answer 11

Here is a good video to watch on youtube - it's from the History Channel



Who Wrote the Bible? - History Channel



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PQ6_0gJUE&feature=my_watch_later_videos&list=WL054DD09580747A8D

Answer 12

In 325 A D the Roman Emperor Constantine gathered together the 8 Bishops of the Cristian world for them to determined which books should be accepted into the Bible that we use today.The books from the Old Testament were some books taken from the Torah, the Jewish Bible. The problem was they had to determine which of the over 140 books should go into what we call the New Testament today. From my reading it took over 5 years to complete.

Answer 13

the inspired words of god were passed among the church's for hundreds of years until the catholic church decided to put all these into one book and call it the bible

Answer 14

A large number of eminent and respected theologians

collaborated prayerfully, all contributing to the task and

accountable, in a process that was overseen, by faith,

by the Lord Himself ... via the indwelling Holy Spirit.



The subsequent continuation of His church, complete

with gifts of the Spirit demonstrating harmony with the

canonized books, indicate the church of the scriptures

as opposed to the many man-made variations on offer.



(forget the "Nicean Creed" ~ it contradicts scripture)

Answer 15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Rome

Answer 16

gcc bible.c



The source is proprietary, unfortunately.

Answer 17

I'm not an expert but you should probably look for the council of Nicaea if you want information.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

Answer 18

Look up "council of Nicea"

"Nicean creed"

Answer 19

by a bunch of 36 homosexuals