Spiritual development, Religion
The mysteries of history - who wrote the Bible?
The Bible is called in different ways: the Book of Books, the Book of Life, the Book of Knowledge, the Eternal Book. It is undeniable that it has made a huge contribution to the spiritual development of mankind for many hundreds of years. Biblical subjects are written with artistic texts and scientific treatises, paintings and musical works. Images from the Eternal Book are imprinted on icons, frescoes, in sculptures. Modern art - the cinema - did not bypass it. This is the most popular and readable book of all that the human hand has ever held.
However, people for a long time have asked a question on which absolutely unequivocal answer have not given till now: and Who wrote the Bible? Is it really the harvest of God? Is it possible to trust unconditionally what is written there?
To the history of the issue
But in the Book there are a lot of inconsistencies, contradictions, "dark spots". Something is explained by inaccuracies in the translation of canonical texts, something by the mistakes of those who wrote the Bible, something by our folly. In addition, many of the Gospel texts were simply destroyed, burned. Many did not enter the main content, they became apocryphal. Few people know that most of the fragments of the Holy Scriptures were admitted to the broad masses after this or that Ecumenical Council. Ie, however strange it may seem, the human factor played a significant role in the embodiment of God's providence.
Does the above allow us to state that the authors only mechanically, thoughtlessly recorded the thoughts "from above", like somnambulists? Not certainly in that way. From about the fourth century, saints who wrote the Bible began to be considered her co-authors. Those. The personal element began to take place. Thanks to this confession, explanations for the stylistic heterogeneity of the sacred texts, semantic and actual discrepancies appeared.
Thus, among believers it is considered that the Bible is the word of the Holy Spirit, and God's people, the holy apostles who created it. This is a kind of spiritual experience, imprinted in the human language.
Sections of the Bible
The volume of the Old Testament is three times the size of the New Testament . Both parts are complementary and not individually understood. Each contains a list of their own books, which can be divided into groups: instructive, historical and prophetic. The total number of them is sixty-six and composed by thirty authors, among whom were the shepherd Amos and King David, the tax collector Matthew and the fisherman Peter, and also the doctor, scientist, etc.
Some clarifications
It remains only to add that for people far from faith, the Bible is a remarkable literary monument that survived the centuries and deserved the right to immortality.
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