Who wrote the Bible?

[adverbelly]

I always wondered about the historical roots of the books in the Bible.  

Who wrote the books of the Bible?  When were they written?  Why someone wrote them?

Were they inspired by God?

Wikipedia does not list the author(s):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible

It seems weird that 2 billion people in the world follow this book but nobody knows who wrote it.

Comparison of Genesis' first Creation Story with Enuma Elish, a Babylonian creation story

The Babylonian creation story is called by its first two words "Enuma Elish."
According to archaeologists, it was originally written circa 1120 BCE.

It was discovered in 1875 CE. It bears many points of similarity to the first creation story
in the Bible:

Item	Ancient Israelite Creation Story	Babylonian Creation Story
-------------------------------	-------------------------------	-------------------------------
Source	Genesis 1:1 to 2:3	Enuma Elish
Date of writing (liberal belief)	8th or 9th century BCE	Late 12th century BCE
Date of writing (conservative belief)	13th century BCE, the time of Moses	Late 12th century BCE.
Author (liberal belief)	"P," authors of the Priestly tradition.	Unknown.
Author (conservative belief)	Moses.	Unknown.
Creator(s) of the universe	Multiple Gods, Elohim.	A God battling a Goddess.
Initial state of the earth	Desolate waste; covered in darkness.	Chaos; enveloped in darkness.
First development	Light created.	Light created.
Next development	Firmament created - a rigid dome over the earth separating the earth and heaven.	Firmament created; also perceived as a rigid dome.
Next development	Dry land created.	Dry land created.
Next development	Sun, moon, stars created.	Sun, moon, stars created.
Next development	Creation of men and women.	Creation of men and women.
Final development	God rests and sanctify the Sabbath.	Gods rest and celebrate.

source:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/com_geba.htm

According to Christian History, the Earth is 7330 years old. Bible (66 books) was written by 40 writers over 1400 years period.

source: http://www.bible.ca/b-bible-timeline-religious-history.htm

Some disturbing verses from it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1367154.0

it is so complicated to understand who wrote this book because we have too many options for this..

[blackbird307]

Well no one is lazy. They want a fight? They will have one.

What?  no one is lazy?!?

Have you... met... ... people?

I made the necessary corrections. It was meant to say not all people. Which is one of the things religious people are counting on, I believe.

[Moloch]

Well no one is lazy. They want a fight? They will have one.

What?  no one is lazy?!?

Have you... met... ... people?

I made the necessary corrections. It was meant to say not all people. Which is one of the things religious people are counting on, I believe.

Good point...

Christianity is the laziest of all the religions

The only requirement is to believe Jesus will save you... That's it... You don't even need to know anything about Jesus...

Christianity does not care if you were a murderer before you got saved...

Christianity does not care if you were a murderer after you got saved...
(Catholics might want you to confess, but God will still let you into heaven)

You aren't required to read the Bible or go to church to be a Christian...

You are not required to help the poor or anything nice...

Sooooo lazy

[hugoworld]

I always wondered about the historical roots of the books in the Bible.  

Who wrote the books of the Bible?  When were they written?  Why someone wrote them?

Were they inspired by God?

Wikipedia does not list the author(s):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible

It seems weird that 2 billion people in the world follow this book but nobody knows who wrote it.

Comparison of Genesis' first Creation Story with Enuma Elish, a Babylonian creation story

The Babylonian creation story is called by its first two words "Enuma Elish."
According to archaeologists, it was originally written circa 1120 BCE.

It was discovered in 1875 CE. It bears many points of similarity to the first creation story
in the Bible:

Item	Ancient Israelite Creation Story	Babylonian Creation Story
-------------------------------	-------------------------------	-------------------------------
Source	Genesis 1:1 to 2:3	Enuma Elish
Date of writing (liberal belief)	8th or 9th century BCE	Late 12th century BCE
Date of writing (conservative belief)	13th century BCE, the time of Moses	Late 12th century BCE.
Author (liberal belief)	"P," authors of the Priestly tradition.	Unknown.
Author (conservative belief)	Moses.	Unknown.
Creator(s) of the universe	Multiple Gods, Elohim.	A God battling a Goddess.
Initial state of the earth	Desolate waste; covered in darkness.	Chaos; enveloped in darkness.
First development	Light created.	Light created.
Next development	Firmament created - a rigid dome over the earth separating the earth and heaven.	Firmament created; also perceived as a rigid dome.
Next development	Dry land created.	Dry land created.
Next development	Sun, moon, stars created.	Sun, moon, stars created.
Next development	Creation of men and women.	Creation of men and women.
Final development	God rests and sanctify the Sabbath.	Gods rest and celebrate.

source:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/com_geba.htm

According to Christian History, the Earth is 7330 years old. Bible (66 books) was written by 40 writers over 1400 years period.

source: http://www.bible.ca/b-bible-timeline-religious-history.htm

Some disturbing verses from it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1367154.0

i understand that bible was written by many people..

[HeadBroadway]

The Holy Bible is written by men inspired by God and diligently followed by illumined people!

[salinizm]

The Holy Bible is written by men inspired by God and diligently followed by illumined people!

 you wrong.. bible was written by men who drugged-out ...

[Moloch]

The Holy Bible is written by men inspired by God and diligently followed by illumined people!

 you wrong.. bible was written by men who drugged-out ...

You don't know the half of it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna

A number of ethnomycologists, including Terence McKenna, have suggested that most characteristics of manna are similar to that of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms...

If you read the description of manna in the bible... it sounds just like magic mushrooms... sprouts overnight, when its humid... looks like a small loaf of bread, the color of coriander seed... when the sun hits it, it shrivels up... causes 'visions'... Moses talks to God in the form of a 'burning bush' that doesn't get consumed by the fire (and nobody else can see)...

[KiwiParty]

Most of the bible texts are transcripts. Some by hearsay, from prayers, and preachers.
The tradition of science which tries to answer this questions, parts of, is found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_criticism.
The latin word for it is exegesis. Latin was the language of the perpetrators, the romans.
It is known they destroyed everything related to jesus, so even the new testament can't be dated precisely.
The old testament, its origin is the talmud, and it contains the heritage of the hebrews.
you should ask someone of them, a rabbi, about the origins of the talmud.
but be careful, they are known to be very, very harsh.

[Losvienleg]

You can be sure that people who wrote this were people chose by God himself, because the Truth couldn't be let written by sinners.

[catch.me.if.you.can]

Schizophrenic rabbines.

[BADecker]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

[BrassicBob]

I remember a cartoon i saw once in my dad's hustler magazine as a kid.

It had 2 monks writing the bible and one says to the other, "Imagine if someday people actually believed this horseshit"?

Not sure why, but that always stuck with me.. LOL.

[af_newbie]

The Holy Bible is written by men inspired by God and diligently followed by illumined people!

Except there is no God.  There is absolutely no evidence for one.
So "inspired" my ass.

The guys who wrote these books were frantically trying to copy from other myths.
That is why there is so many mistakes and off the wall stories as they tried to change the original myths.
The end result is more nonsense.  Garbage in, garbage out.

Who are "illumined people"?

[af_newbie]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

[BADecker]

The Holy Bible is written by men inspired by God and diligently followed by illumined people!

Except there is no God.  There is absolutely no evidence for one.
So "inspired" my ass.

The guys who wrote these books were frantically trying to copy from other myths.
That is why there is so many mistakes and off the wall stories as they tried to change the original myths.
The end result is more nonsense.  Garbage in, garbage out.

Who are "illumined people"?

Except that the scientific laws of cause and effect, complex universe, and universal entropy, when combined, prove that God exists. Cause and effect almost does it alone.

[BADecker]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

God wrote it by establishing in the hearts and minds of the people who did the penning, the literal things He wanted written.

[mrflibblehat]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

God wrote it by establishing in the hearts and minds of the people who did the penning, the literal things He wanted written.

You do realize that by that idea anything could be possible just because.

[Moloch]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

God wrote it by establishing in the hearts and minds of the people who did the penning, the literal things He wanted written.

Then why did God write so much about how he loves slavery and genocide, but hates fags?

What sort of immoral God do you follow?

[BADecker]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

God wrote it by establishing in the hearts and minds of the people who did the penning, the literal things He wanted written.

You do realize that by that idea anything could be possible just because.

There even is a Bible passage that says that with God all things are possible.   

[mrflibblehat]

The Bible is even truth when it tells lies. Why? Because it says that they are lies, or it attributes the lies to people other than God.

God did not write it.  I think we established that.

God wrote it by establishing in the hearts and minds of the people who did the penning, the literal things He wanted written.

You do realize that by that idea anything could be possible just because.

There even is a Bible passage that says that with God all things are possible.   

All things are also possible for Odin.