As I understand it the Bible as we know it today was assembled in the centuries following the death of Jesus. There was a lengthy editing and approval process. There would have been no bible at the time Jesus lived. If I recall he was accepted as the savior by the Catholic church some 30 years after his death. (Donning fireproof PPE. Ducking into hole and pulling dirt in after.)
“There would have been no bible at the time Jesus lived. “
You can’t possibly be serious, because no one who knows anything about the Bible would make such and ignorant statement.
Have you even read the Bible, Old Testament or New, ever???
How many times did Jesus quote from the Old Testament? Do you recall? What scriptures did he quote when tempted by Stan himself?
I will never understand how people like this author pull “facts” out of their rear ends, which are not facts at all, and pretend to be educated. It is laughable.
Have you ever heard of “Moses”? Have you ever heard of the Psalms, written by King David? Have you ever heard of the book of Job? All written before Jesus was born.
Just wow.
Ouch!
None of the text of the “Old Testament” was edited but was copped carefully. Old texts were scrolls. If a scribe made a mistake he was beaten and the scroll destroyed in a ritual.
General, I will not be flaming you, but you have asked some good questions that I am sure many average people might ask who are not very familiar with the Bible.
First, the Bible is not one book, but a collection of 66 books written over a 2000 year time frame.
The Bible Jesus had in the First century was the Torah, the Psalms, wisdom literature (Proverbs, Ecclesiasties, Job), history (Judges, Samuel, Chronicles, Kings, Esther, etc.), and the Prophets (Daniel, Isaiah, Jerimiah, etc.). I’ve probably missed some, but these are the books that are typically called by Christians, the Old Testament. These books were pretty well agreed upon by the Jews, by the 2nd century BC - that is about 200 years before Jesus’ day- to be the inspired, canonical Word of God. They didn’t call it the “Bible” as we do today, but usually it was called, “the Law, Psalms, and the Prophets”.
After Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection, and ascension into heaven is when what would become the books of the New Testament were written. The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were biographical presentations of Jesus - not biographies in the same sense as we think of, but accounts from eye-witnesses of the life and ministry of Jesus. Only Matthew’s and Luke’s account mention the events of Jesus’ birth. Matthew and John were two of the original 12 Disciples, Mark (John Mark) was an early Christian convert who was a contemporary of the 12 Disciples, as was Luke (a medical doctor).
All the other books in the New Testament (except for Revelation), were letters written by various Apostles (the original 12 Disciples) except for Paul, who is often called the 13th Apostle, who wrote 13 books/letters of the 27 New Testament books. These books were letters written by the Apostles to specific churches to address specific problems or issues they were facing at the time. Often the letters were also intended to be passed on from church to church and read to all the Believers in attendance.
The Gospel accounts (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were written within the first 50 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The other books of the New Testament were written within nearly the same time frame, The “canon”, that is the books that are considered the inspired Word of God was settled upon by most of the Christian world, by the
2nd/3rd centuries.
All the early Christians believed Jesus to be God’s Son, the promised Messiah, God in human form, and the only source of salvation for mankind from the consequences of sin, death, and Hell. They believed this somewhat before and soon after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. It was not 30 years later.
I hope this clears up some of your questions for you. There are a myriad of Christian books and documents from Church history that go over the development of the Biblical Canon. If you are interested, I’m sure you can find all the information you could ever want on this subject.
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