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Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by Myer(m): 10:35am On Jan 16, 2022
[url][/url]One of the major challenges Istill can't seem to understand is how the bible came about.

If you read through Genesis to Deuteronomy, you'll realise that some of the events were private and no one else was there, and certainly not even a writer.
This books were supposedly written by Moses who was born millennia after.
Moses, the supposed writer even in Deuteronomy 34 wrote about his own death.

How also did he know what conversations took place between God and Adam, Between Eve and the serpeant? Between Jacob and the Angel when he wrestled with God, Abraham and Isaac, Isaac and his sons, Jacob and his sons, Etc

In the new testament, how did the writers of the Synoptic gospels (Matthew to John) get the conversations Jesus had alone in their absence? Such as the conversation between him and the Samaritan woman by the well, Jesus and God at Gethsemane, etc.
How did the writer even have the conversations he had with them when none of them was a writer and most of them were illiterates?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 11:04am On Jan 16, 2022
High Priests of Judaism wrote the first part while hellenized Jewish eclectic philosophers wrote the New Testament.

Both groups were inspired and borrowed from more ancient cultures in Egypt and Ethiopia ( known parts that of Africa), Sumeria, Assyria, and Persia.

An example of more a ancient culture that inspired the scriptures is found in the episode of Jesus’ wise men who represented Zoroastrianism and the originators of the astral allegories that the New Testament borrowed from.

Also, it’s always been known by the learned that the scriptures are allegorical and the gods are mythical. Regardless of allegories and myth, often times it’s nonsense.

e.g. in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth is geocentric nonsense.

If the writers composed genesis in this epoch, they would write something such as, “in the beginning god created the heavens. On the fourth day, he gathered the best part of the heavens and created the earth”.

It would still be nonsense, but it wouldn’t be so wrong and senseless.

A lot of people try to claim their god created the universe instead of “heavens and earth”, but the writers didn’t even know what a universe is.
I’m still waiting for the sun or other star to fall into the earth.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 11:22am On Jan 16, 2022
The bible is divided into two parts.

The Tanakh which comprises Genesis to Malachi. These book belongs to the jews. They were written by their scribes and elites. It is for their national religion called Judaism. The heart and soul of these is the Torah which contains God's laws.( Genesis to Deuteronomy) contrary to popular belief, the Torah was written by Ezra not Moses. Moses never existed. Ezra edited the babylonian Torah to arrive at its present form...which has remained unchanged since it was publish. They were written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
The second part called the new testament or the Christian testament is from Mathew to relegation. It was written by the Greeks and romans for the Roman empire. It was instigated by emperor Constantine who wanted a single religion for his empire. He called the presbyters to Nicea and after arguing for almost 15 years , christianity(catholic) was created as the official religion of the Roman empire..

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 11:48am On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:
The bible is divided into two parts.

The Tanakh which comprises Genesis to Malachi. These book belongs to the jews. They were written by their scribes and elites. It is for their national religion called Judaism. The heart and soul of these is the Torah which contains God's laws..

“God’s law”.
Jewish scribes and elites wrote the book yet you call it gods law. What god?
The ones the Jewish scribes and elites made up?
How is something written by Jews, god’s laws.
Did this god thing materialize to affirm that those are its laws?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 11:52am On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:

The second part called the new testament or the Christian testament is from Mathew to relegation. It was written by the Greeks and romans for the Roman empire. It was instigated by emperor Constantine who wanted a single religion for his empire. He called the presbyters to Nicea and after arguing for almost 15 years , christianity(catholic) was created as the official religion of the Roman empire..

Scriptures were already in existence before Constantine or the councils and synods that formalized the religion and influenced the editing of said scriptures.

Romans and Greeks didn’t write the scriptures. Your favorite people wrote them.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 11:57am On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:
( Genesis to Deuteronomy) contrary to popular belief, the Torah was written by Ezra not Moses. Moses never existed. Ezra edited the babylonian Torah to arrive at its present form.....

Moses never existed but the supernatural being he had dealings with in the scriptures exist?

Which is likely to have existed Moses or his god?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 12:06pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


Moses never existed but the supernatural being he had dealings with in the scriptures exist?

Which is likely to have existed Moses or his god?

Do you know what an "epic" means ?


God is within us....

It is a spiritual story...not literal.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 12:07pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


Scriptures were already in existence before Constantine or the councils and synods that formalized the religion and influenced the editing of said scriptures.

Romans and Greeks didn’t write the scriptures. Your favorite people wrote them.


The new testament has got nothing to do with the jews....

They where all written in Greeks..

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 12:10pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


“God’s law”.
Jewish scribes and elites wrote the book yet you call it gods law. What god?
The ones the Jewish scribes and elites made up?
How is something written by Jews, god’s laws.
Did this god thing materialize to affirm that those are its laws?

Lol...

I Dont know how to address your ignorance.


At least I expect you to know what every one else knows. You know, the regular.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by efficiencie(m): 12:22pm On Jan 16, 2022
Myer:
[url][/url]One of the major challenges Istill can't seem to understand is how the bible came about.

If you read through Genesis to Deuteronomy, you'll realise that some of the events were private and no one else was there, and certainly not even a writer.
This books were supposedly written by Moses who was born millennia after.
Moses, the supposed writer even in Deuteronomy 34 wrote about his own death.

How also did he know what conversations took place between God and Adam, Between Eve and the serpeant? Between Jacob and the Angel when he wrestled with God, Abraham and Isaac, Isaac and his sons, Jacob and his sons, Etc

In the new testament, how did the writers of the Synoptic gospels (Matthew to John) get the conversations Jesus had alone in their absence? Such as the conversation between him and the Samaritan woman by the well, Jesus and God at Gethsemane, etc.
How did the writer even have the conversations he had with them when none of them was a writer and most of them were illiterates?

The books of Moses are books of prophecy sourced from visions, words of knowledge and words of wisdom. The gospels were biographical accounts of the life and works of Jesus. Hence they do not have to present in every event they wrote about.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 12:46pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


Lol...

I Dont know how to address your ignorance.


At least I expect you to know what every one else knows. You know, the regular.

Just explain how something written by Jewish scribes and elites is ascribed to a supernatural entity.
If Jewish elites and scribes wrote the book, how is “god” involved?
What makes them god’s laws?

No, I do not know the regular.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 12:50pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


The new testament has got nothing to do with the jews....

They where all written in Greeks..

So what if they were written in Greek? Didn’t they translate their Bible to Greek and call it the Septuagint?

Newton wrote the Principia Mathematica in Latin, does that mean he was Latin?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 1:15pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


So what if they were written in Greek? Didn’t they translate their Bible to Greek and call it the Septuagint?

Newton wrote the Principia Mathematica in Latin, does that mean he was Latin?


But the Jewish scriptures are all written in Hebrew or Aramaic .
The romans /Greek stole it and mistranslated it and added the new testament at the end of it to make it sellable...

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 1:16pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


Just explain how something written by Jewish scribes and elites is ascribed to a supernatural entity.
If Jewish elites and scribes wrote the book, how is “god” involved?
What makes them god’s laws?

No, I do not know the regular.

God is just a fancy word for the universe....it is just a relation between us and nature...
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 1:30pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


God is just a fancy word for the universe..

Is this your definition or the Jewish scribes?
The “heavens” they speak about seems to be the celestial sphere, which they took to be a dome with affixed stars.

If god is just a fancy name for the heavens or the universe as you say, what does it have to do with Jewish scribes?



sonmvayina:

..it is just a relation between us and nature...


God is a fancy word for the universe and just a relation between you and nature?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 1:38pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


But the Jewish scriptures are all written in Hebrew or Aramaic .
The romans /Greek stole it and mistranslated it and added the new testament at the end of it to make it sellable...

So what if the Jewish scriptures are written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Did the Greeks force the alleged 70 scribes to translate the Old Testament to Greek?

The Romans adopted it because they saw the usefulness of the Jews “noble lie”.

Regardless, Hellenized jews created the gospels and Romans added and edited other useful scripts and called it the New Testament.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 1:38pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


Is this your definition or the Jewish scribes?
The “heavens” they speak about seems to be the celestial sphere, which they took to be a dome with affixed stars.

If god is just a fancy name for the heavens or the universe as you say, what does it have to do with Jewish scribes?






God is a fancy word for the universe and just a relation between you and nature?

Stay on discuss.

The jewish scribes wrote a story about how humans should interact with themselves and with nature..

No more ...no less

We are all God experiencing nature (God) in infinite ways..

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 1:40pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


So what if the Jewish scriptures are written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Did the Greeks force the 70 scribes to translate the Old Testament to Greek?

The Romans adopted it because they saw the usefulness of the Jews “noble lie”.

Regardless, Hellenized jews created the gospels and Romans added and edited other useful scripts and called it the New Testament.


Still maintain ..it has got nothing to do with the jews...

At bold ...lol

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 1:42pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


Still maintain ..it has got nothing to do with the jews...

At bold ...lol

At bold….figure out what it means first before lol
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 1:51pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


Stay on discuss.

The jewish scribes wrote a story about how humans should interact with themselves and with nature..

No more ...no less

I’m on discussion. You’re are the one using the word god and refusing to explain what you mean.

The jewish scribes or Ezra, like you said, wrote all manner of things including conversations with “god” or “nature” or the “universe” or the “heavens”, and you claim their writings include “God’s laws”.

You claim God is a fancy word for the universe and its laws are about human interaction wihh the nature.

My questions are why should we call the musings of Jewish scribes “God’s law”?

What are examples of this God’s law.
Remember, I don’t know the regular.

sonmvayina:

We are all God experiencing nature (God) in infinite ways..

Instead of the convoluted statement above, why don’t you just write that we are a part of nature?

“We are all Borg experiencing Borg in myriad ways”

What is Borg?
Borg is just a fancy way of saying multiverse.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by MaxInDHouse(m): 2:33pm On Jan 16, 2022
ATHEISM just a step from you, then all your self-deception will end! cheesy

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 2:36pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


I’m on discussion. You’re are the one using the word god and refusing to explain what you mean.

The jewish scribes or Ezra, like you said, wrote all manner of things including conversations with “god” or “nature” or the “universe” or the “heavens”, and you claim their writings include “God’s laws”.

You claim God is a fancy word for the universe and its laws are about human interaction wihh the nature.

My questions are why should we call the musings of Jewish scribes “God’s law”?

What are examples of this God’s law.
Remember, I don’t know the regular.



Instead of the convoluted statement above, why don’t you just write that we are a part of nature?

“We are all Borg experiencing Borg in myriad ways”

What is Borg?
Borg is just a fancy way of saying multiverse.

Because if it is not written God's laws, people like you can't tell the difference between right from wrong..

Yea...we are part of nature...
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 2:37pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


At bold….figure out what it means first before lol

I did..thats why I laughed out loud.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 2:40pm On Jan 16, 2022
MaxInDHouse:
ATHEISM just a step from you, then all your self-deception will end! cheesy

You are not improving because you are not learning..

Stop being closed minded...

Learn to question your beliefs
.

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 2:45pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


Because if it is not written God's laws, people like you can't tell the difference between right from wrong..

Yea...we are part of nature...

So god is a fancy way of referring to nature so people like me can know right from wrong.

You’re wrong about that because this god/nature /whatever-else you claim they speak of doesn’t determine right or wrong. So I guess people like me aren’t fooled.

If this god of the Jewish scribes is just a device to control people, why are you all over this forum advocating for this god?
Why are you claiming that it gave commandments and laws?

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by MaxInDHouse(m): 2:45pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:

You are not improving because you are not learning.. Stop being closed minded...Learn to question your beliefs
But you are improving shey? cheesy

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Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 2:46pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


You are not improving because you are not learning..

Stop being closed minded...

Learn to question your beliefs
.

Question yours first. You are in no position to criticize anyone’s faith!!!

And stop mentioning “learning” as if you are capable of improving Max’s knowledge.

His stance towards the JWs is similar to your obsequiousness towards the Jews.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by MaxInDHouse(m): 2:48pm On Jan 16, 2022
cheesy
killyaselfie:

Question yours first. You are in no position to criticize anyone’s faith!!!
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 2:49pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


I did..thats why I laughed out loud.


If you did, you probably wouldn’t be here yapping and advocating for their god or any other god.
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by killyaselfie: 2:56pm On Jan 16, 2022
sonmvayina:


God is omni present

God is omni potent

God is omni science

Which of these does a man possess?


You might have to read Numbers 23:19

Duplicitous mutha…

This post above rubbishes all your arguments about your Jewish god/nature/whateverthefuck
Re: Can You Explain How Writing The Bible Came About? by sonmvayina(m): 3:30pm On Jan 16, 2022
killyaselfie:


Duplicitous mutha…

This post above rubbishes all your arguments about your Jewish god/nature/whateverthefuck


Lol..it does not...

Hope I have not been answering a teenager?

Good is the divine consciousness....personified..

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