This is part one of an explanation of the origin(s) of the Bible.The Bible is the holy book of Christians. It is an amazing work and one of the masterpieces of world literature. It is also inspired, but not by human thought, but by the Holy Spirit which is the third person of the Godhead (Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost/Spirit).
The Bible which means 'book' is one book which is made up of 66 books which were written over a 1500 year period by various authors from different walks of life who lived in various places in portions of what we call today the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The authors came from a broad range of social strata: kings, prophets, fishermen, tax collectors.
The 66 books of the Bible are divided into two parts, The Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament is made up of 39 books. Both Christians and Jews accept The Old Testament as God's word and their religious canon. The Old Testament begins with the story of how the world and humanity were created. It covers the history of God's chosen people beginning with the patriarch Abraham and his descendants the Hebrew people, and their rise and fall through sin. Throughout the Old Testament there are allusions to and direct promises by various prophets of God that eventually He would send the Messiah to rescue humanity from the devastation of sin.
The second half of the Bible is the New Testament which is made up of 27 books. This portion of the Bible is accepted only by Christians. The New Testament tells the story of the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, His birth, life, death, and resurrection. It continues with the story of the early church and ends in a final complex, sometimes frightening, mysterious prophesy of the future of all humanity with a promise of a second return of Jesus Christ to the earth.
2 comments:
How and when and where was the Bible changed (or adjusted)?
Wasn't there a commission years after Jesus' death to keep certain things and to delete yet others??
And how do we know it's the word of God?? Is it because no man is capable of writing such a book?
I will get into all of that later Metin. I actually have a collection called the Lost Books of the Bible or rather the rejects:) Some of the stories are hilarious whereas there is little that is hilarious in the Bible. There is one about Jesus' childhood where he was quite a mischief maker to say the least. Then there are the stories of Adam and Eve where Adam was quite a wimp. I know you are not a reader, but if we ever meet you must read these. They have nothing of the feel of the rest of the Bible.
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