Who Wrote the Bible
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It was written by Gods Prophets
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Divine Inspiration and Human Authorship
wrote the Bible
now the Bible is a book that is made up
of several smaller documents which are
also called books and those documents
were written by many different people
tradition identifies 35 different people
that are associated with those books as
well as plenty of anonymous books these
are books that we don't know who wrote
them but somebody did and so we're going
to take a high-level view of where these
books of the Bible came from and the
humans that both wrote them and
contributed to the Bible that we know
after the main documents were written so
when we answer the question who wrote
the Bible we're going to be looking at
three different types of answers we're
going to look at the sources this is
where we get into more of the spiritual
side of where these books of the Bible
came from as well as some regular
original sources of the author's site
we're also going to look at the humans
that wrote the Bible now like I
mentioned church history identifies 35
names of people that have been credited
with writing books of the Bible
there were more than 40 different
individuals that contributed and then
we're also going to look at these
scribes and scholars these people played
a critical role in giving us the Bible
that we have today that is often
overlooked so these aren't necessarily
the authors in the Bible but a lot of
the documents that we have today we have
because of these people so it's very
important that we recognize so let's
jump there when we look at the Bible's
sources the main one that you're going
to hear from Christians is God himself
there's this idea of divine inspiration
and we get that from how some of the
people who were writing books that made
it into the Bible but
talk about where these words come from
you'll find in the Old Testament people
saying all the time the word of the Lord
came to sell itself or thus says the
Lord and what we find out through
reading the Bible and also just looking
at acts Christian and Jewish history is
people believe that the books of the
Bible especially the books of the Old
Testament were written by humans but
were inspired or prompted by God's
Spirit the Apostle Paul writes to
Timothy and he says that all scripture
those are the books of the Old Testament
is God breathed or God inspired and the
author of 2nd Peter tells his readers
that none of the prophets in the Old
Testament were just writing based on
their own initiative they were carried
along by God's Spirit so although we're
going to see a lot of human perspectives
in the books of the Bible these
perspectives are brought in by those
individual authors and of course the the
perspectives of the scribes and scholars
after them we still have this belief
that these folks were prompted by God's
Spirit they were writing out of loyalty
and devotion to God there are a few
other sources that are not as spiritual
as as this we have oral traditions these
are stories that were handed down
generation to generation and eventually
were used by or and referenced by the
other writers of Scripture we have
ancient songs a great example of an
ancient song being used is in the book
of Judges where someone we don't know
who wrote the book of Judges is putting
together this picture of how the nation
of Israel devolved without any sort of
godly leadership and there's at one
point when they quote a psalm it's
called the stall of Deborah and this
piece of ancient Hebrew poetry is far
older than
the rest of the book of Judges it's it's
ancient it's old but it's used as part
of a book that was written afterwards we
have wise sayings of better Paulding why
sayings from the Jewish leaders wise
sayings from from other people that may
not have been part of the Jewish faith
we have letters and decrees you're going
to find letters that were written from
religious leaders to their followers
you're going to find decrees written by
kings and emperors these are these are
pulled in to the books that are in our
Bible we have historical records from
you know kings and monarchs or kings and
monarchies of the ancient world and we
have eyewitness testimony for example in
the Gospel of Luke the author claims
that he's pulled together these these
testimonies from other people that that
were present during the life and Jesus
so these are these are the sources this
is some of where the the people that
wrote the Bible were drawing from
obviously the chief one the most
important one to to the religious
Society of biblical discussion is that
divine inspiration now let's look at the
human authors of Scripture I'm not going
to get into the list of all 35 authors
of the Bible that are traditionally
associated with these books but you can
find that list on over V Bible com what
we want to get an idea of is the rules
of the people that contributed so when
we're looking at contributors the the
chief type of contributor to what we
what we call the Bible today are the
prophets and these are humans who spoke
and wrote on God's behalf
they were usually calling people to live
in obedience or loyalty to Israel's God
the Old Testament books are often named
after the Prophet that
wrote the majority of the text in those
books so when we see the Book of Ezekiel
well most of the Book of Ezekiel was was
written we believe by the prophet
Ezekiel and you see that with most of
the books that are toward the end of the
Old Testament
some examples of prophets that
contributed to scripture we have Moses
he's the person who led Israel out of
Exodus up to the edge of the promised
land he's credited with giving the
Israelites that original Torah the
original laws from God who made several
agreements with the people of Israel and
in those first five books of the Bible
which is what we call the Torah today we
see a couple of actions or there are a
couple episodes in which Moses is
writing down things that are happening
now obviously there was the in in the
Torah we see episodes that Moses
probably didn't write things like saying
that he was the most humble man in the
world or where Moses died and how nobody
knows where Moses died those are some
things that that we also find in the
Torah which is why these scribes and
scholars are going to be important for
us to look at in just a little bit in
addition to Moses another great example
of a prophet is David David was a king
he was a musician he was a songwriter
and he produced a great deal of songs
that are preserved in the Book of Psalms
but only about half of those Psalms are
credited to or associated with David
where did the others come from and how
did they come together into that body of
150 oh that's where this third category
becomes important so very very
interesting how these two work together
I say at Jeremiah Joel these are those
prophets whose books are named after
themselves they wrote these long epic
poems about how the relationship with
Israel and their God was playing out
very very key contributors to the text
of the Bible then we have a group of
people
I'm calling the sages these are wise
people the most famous of whom was of
course King Solomon
they wrote proverbs riddles stories and
songs to help people make just and godly
decisions when they were as they were
going about their lives
we have historians these are people who
chronicled the stories in ways that made
a theological point Luke is a really
good example of this he wrote of the the
books of Luke and acts so church
tradition tells us that following the
New Testament but we also have Old
Testament historians as well when we
look at the books of Joshua and judges
Samuel and kings chronicles Ezra and
Nehemiah these are these are stories
that are telling the history of Israel
but telling it in a way to make certain
theological points so it's not it's not
necessarily that they were historians
the way we would think of historians
today their theological historians they
are trying to teach a spiritual truth in
the way they're arranging history and
then of course we have for the New
Testament the Apostles and their
associates so an apostle was someone
that was sent by Jesus Christ to build
his church on earth and so these were
close followers of Jesus who were the
leaders of the early church examples of
this are include Matthew Matthew wrote
the Gospel of Matthew according to
church tradition and that's the first
book of the New Testament the Apostle
Paul wrote many letters to local
churches of his day and then we also
have people who weren't necessarily
apostles but were associated closely
enough with the apostles for for them to
be writing under their authority and
their writings were also deemed very
valuable by the Christian Church a great
example of this is mark mark is credited
with writing the gospel that bears his
name and as far as the church has been
concerned pretty much since the
beginning the Gospel of Mark has been
associated with Saint Peter the the idea
is that mark although he's not an
apostle wrote that gospel from Peters
memory in Peters notes and there's a lot
of conversation across church history
that that is pointed to this being what
Christians have believed for a very long
time this brings us to the third answer
to this question of who wrote the Bible
a rare did we get the text of the Bible
and we want to look at scribes and
scholars these people played a very
crucial role in giving us the Bible that
we have today because they did they di
three really important things for us one
is they organized Scripture so we havescribes that were pulling togetherdocuments that were written over longstretches of time and putting themtogether into the cohesive documents andsets of documents that we have now agreat example of this is the Book of
Psalms I mentioned this a little bit
earlier so King David was a musician
King and he's credited with producing
some songs the praise God but how how
did those songs come together to make
half of the Book of Psalms ready the
other Psalms come from
who made the call of pulling these
together well we don't know that part of
the work is anonymous but we do know
that somehow we get to a point at which
we have a hundred and fifty Psalms that
are patched together into one really
cohesive and well organized work it's a
it's a really important thing that we
have and the scribes and scholars to
thank for this Psalms is a great example
of this proverbs pulls together 7
different collections of wise sayings it
is it's very very vital what the scribes
and scholars did in addition to this
they were key in preserving texts so the
Israelites believed that Moses gave them
the original
Torah and there are points at which we
see Moses ready
now but keeping that Torah preserving
the books of the Bible was no small task
we have scribes and scholars to thank
for that they kept these books they
copied these books very meticulously and
very faithfully that's that's one of the
reasons why the Dead Sea Scrolls was
such an important discovery in the past
century because
we have we have this
evidence of very very very old documents
from the Jewish faith that still match
up really really nicely with later
documents that that we have been using
for a long time so these these folks
were keeping the keeping the books
together and preserving them and copying
them so that other people could read
them and so that they would last
because old-time parchment doesn't last
forever the third thing that we want to
look at when we when we talk about
scribes and scholars is how they
canonize the books of the Bible
eventually Christian leaders made the
decision to to say some books belong and
of the Bible these books are sacred
scripture and obviously that was not a
decision that was taken lightly and not
one that happened very quickly
it didn't happen until centuries after
Jesus that the the leaders of different
Christian traditions said these are the
books that we believe belong in Bible
that have demonstrated value and
cohesion and something that something
that we believe is sacred and useful not
only for the church of their time but
had been useful for the church in the
centuries leading up to their time they
believed would be useful for as long as
Christianity would be a thing and so
that gives you a high level idea of who
wrote the Bible the books that we have
in the Bible were organized and
preserved and canonized by scribes and
scholars who used the documents that
originally came from various humans over
the course of history
and these humans wrote out of loyalty
and dedication and devotion to the God
that was inspiring these poems and these
stories and these sayings that they had
put together over hundreds of years
that's why it's kind of an interesting
question to answer who wrote the Bible
we have a lot of people that played a
hand in the Bible that we have today now
if you'd like to know more about where
we got the Bible and how all the books
of the Bible fit together you should
check out my book it's called the
beginner's guide to the Bible and it'll
walk you through the entire process of
Who Wrote the Bible
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