[Desdemona]

Wait a second. Hold the phone Becky. I've heard this one before. God wrote the bible? Then why did it take 100 years to get the 27 books of the New Testament? And why then 27 books. Why not just one? Why didn't Jesus write it himself? Why, then, were the Gospels written for different audiences? Why are there three synoptic Gospels instead of all four? And why synoptic? Why not TOTALLY different?

If God wrote it, it should have been one book written by Jesus. Instead we have ten epistles written by a Roman tax collector, or whatever he was. Four more attributed to him, but not believed to be his work. One Gospel for the Jews, one for Mesopotamia, one for the gentiles, which took two scrolls so is divided into two books, and on and on.

Sorry. That one doesn't hold water. The bible is interpretation of the Word (Jesus didn't write it himself) - and memory. The first Gospel was written down over 30 years after the Resurection. Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians was written at least 10 years before Mark. (The details run together. I haven't had to know this for a long time.) The truth of the matter is, this is all we have. This and the Apocrypha, which is rejected by Protestant sects.

To say that God wrote the bible just doesn't work. Sorry.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

To say that God wrote the bible just doesn't work. Sorry.

“Who wrote the Bible” is a question that can be definitively answered by examining the biblical texts in light of the external evidences that supports its claims. 2 Timothy 3:16 states that “All scripture is inspired by God….” In 2 Peter 1:20-21, Peter reminds the reader to “know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, … but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” The Bible itself tells us that it is God who is the author of His book.

BigMack