baph7667 on 10 February 2013
| luisvideogames said: A group of bishops in the council at Carthage in 397 A.D assembled the Bible. The actual books and chapters are credited to various prophets, apostles and disciples. But, the book as a whole was created by an assembly. They wanted to collect the most important Christian writings and histories into a single book that would be enough for any person to have all that they needed to study and understand God's message. They put together the Bible. They did not write it but they made it. Like an editor putting together a book of short stories or essays. There is no one person that wrote the Bible. Although some people say God wrote it this is untrue. The Bible is supposed to contain God's message but most of it is in the words of the people who did the writing. If you accept the notion that Jesus was God in the flesh, then you could say that the words of Jesus were part of what God "wrote." The same would apply to the instances where someone heard the Lord speak to them. Generally speaking, Christians acknowledge that the exact phrasing was executed by human authors and transcribers, but that all the writing was inspired by God. (taken from wiki answers) |
The Catholics only collected the books that would be most advantageous in helping them with their overall goal of transforming the Roman Empire into the Holy Roman Church as Constantine hit upon the idea ( like many before him) that it would be easier to control a widely spread out population through thought control rather than physical force after he had to fight many tiring battles against the barbarians.
Christian books that didn't lend themselves too easily to the transformation of the Roman Empire into the Roman Catholic Church were excised egs. The Gnostic Gospels.
