IF people dont know who wrote the bible, (many people wrote it)???
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some partsof the bible have no known authors, how can you authenticate what is written and make sure its true? Thank you.
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Even for the books we do know for sure who wrote it, such as some of the letters of Paul, you still have to ask this question. Just knowing who wrote it does not mean that you automatically know if it is true teaching. And if you don't know who wrote it, this does not mean it is not true teaching. Knowing the name of a human author really has little bearing on whether their writing is true. You have to look at the content. Is it accurate with what we know from other accurate sources? Is it self-contradictory? Does it contain false prophecy? Does it contain questionable moral teachings? You just have to examine it with these types of questions in mind.
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You shouldn't need to authenticate the bible. You believe or you don't. Personally I believe evreything it tells me because it is a holly book.
Nickname
ppl know who wrote the bible, the bible came from our father, through early prophets that were about to talk to the god, and the angels, and each prophet has its own book in the bible, everything in the bible is base upon our god's view point
♣C G♣
Many Bible books have specific evidence of authorship or clues that show authorship. We do not know for sure all of the authors in the Bible, but we are fairly certain in most cases. For instance John has no specific author but states "the disciple whom Jesus loved." We know the author must be a Jew from the writing, we know the author was one of the close 3 (Peter, James, and John). Peter was named in the Gospel ruling him out, James died to early to write the book.
indybrother
Authenticating who wrote it and deciding what is 'true' are 2 totally different things. Just because Paul wrote something doesn't make it true if it contradicts what jesus supposedly said. Scholars look for similar writing styles, vocab usage, etc.. to try to decide who might have written which parts. Sometimes they just don't know. But they do shoot for a higher standard than "just believe, don't question".
Ronin
It is known(once you research), that over 40 men inspired by God wrote the bible. So in a sense, God wrote the bible. The main theme throughout the bible is that God has the right to rule over mankind, since he's the Creator of it.
TiagoSan
The context has been altered many times. it was written and added to by many people over centuries and it is still being changed and miconstrued today!.. But your own truth is where you find it..
TimeWastersInc
Bible is written by Many prophets Muslims themselves believe that there were one hundred and forty four thousand prophets and rasools before Mohammed, Bible is the word of God Given to many of these prophets. But I think the question here is accuracy of bible, because when a muslim asks this question he believes that bible has been changes so I will like to answer your question, about your claim that bible has been changes Christians read Torah and all the books before Christianity because these books prove that Jesus is Christ, and he died for us. But when it comes to the Muslims they say that all the books before Islam have been changed by the Christians and Jews. And these books were word of God once but now have been changed. Let us suppose that Jews and Christians have changed the word of God. By saying this Muslims mean that “Jews and Christians have defeated God by changing his word”. So the question is can anyone defeat God. Answer is simply no. This means that bible is unchanged. Secondly why would God let His word be changed by men? Let us suppose if God had let it be changed by the hands of men then he had allowed them to cast much of the world into sin, which God never does. Muslims say that the Allah has taken the responsibility of protecting Koran. Then question is that “Why is Allah protecting only one book? And not His other books by other Prophets. When Muslims say that Jews and Christians have changed the Word of God. They are saying that God is weak and men are Powerful. Which simply goes against Islam, as Islam says Allah is Almighty. So the conclusion is that when Muslims do not find any thing regarding their claim in the earlier books they simply put this lame excuse online that the earlier books have been changed. That’s why they don’t read those books because they don’t want to face the truth that Islam has nothing to do with Christianity and Judaism. If Islam accepts the existence of the earlier books than they don’t find the reason for their own existence because these books say nothing about the prophet of Islam. The very existence of Islam depends upon denying the earlier books. What does Koran say about Jesus? The Imams. 3:53 When Jesus observed that they had no faith, he Said: "Who will help me in the cause of Allah?" The disciples Replied: "We are helpers of Allah. We believe in Him. Bear Witness that we have surrendered ourselves to him. Lord, we Believe in Your revelations and follow your apostle. Count us Among Your witnesses." They plotted, and Allah plotted. Allah Is the supreme Plotter. He said: "Jesus, I am about to cause You to die and lift you up to me. I shall take you away from The unbelievers and exalt your followers above them till the Day of Resurrection.” The above passage from Koran clearly states that Jesus was to die. But According to Islam he is not dead but someone else died his stead. So here we find that Koran also accepts that Jesus died. Bible and the Old Testament say the same View this link http://www.letusreason.org/islam7.htm... Now let’s check how Accurate Koran is: Muslims believe that Koran has no errors it is error free. But the facts are really against this. 1.Koran Includes Mother Marry in Trinity and sometimes Archangel Gabriel. http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-bible-ko... Which is wrong. 2.Koran says that Jews also believe Ezra as the son of God. And we know that Jews don’t believe anyone as son of God. http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/a831... 3.Koran contains many historical errors. http://www.bibleistrue.com/roarlion/isla... http://answering-islam.org/quran/contra/... http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-bible-ko... We read the Koran even if we know errors exist in it, But Muslims know that reading bible would not prove anything to them but that Jesus is the son of God. But any how God has loved not only the Christians, Hindus or Muslims rather He loved the whole world and gave Christ as a sacrifice for the whole mankind so whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. If you think you can make God happy by your good deeds, it’s impossible because man can never abridge the gap that is between God and man so you need some mediator who can fix the gap between mankind and God and that only by belief in the atonement of Christ on the Cross of Calvary. God bless all may he guide you to the right path God speed. Please open your eyes what you believe in is not always right, you must look around to find out what is right. God has given you as his gift the ability seek out for the truth and on judgement day he will question you about it. Muslims also know that Koran was not compiled in the Life of Mohammed, Uthman his third successor compiled it, there were many Korans at that time see this http://www.answering-islam.org.uk/Quran/Text/
Hope
Really no one knows . some people think it was god - not . The story was passd on to generation to generation untill it was written down , so you can probobly guess that in the end it wasn't that right . I don't have a problem with the bible cause I don't read it .oh yeah you asked how many people wrote it lots of people did
doglover3000
How can we tell if the Bible is true? Think about it. You have one writer that lived say 400 years before or after the next writer, yet there stories are alike. Now, even in this day and age if we have a group of 100 people and tell them a story one by one, by the time it gets to the last person it's an entirely different story.
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