Bible is called differently: the Book of books, the Book of Life, The Book of Knowledge, Eternal Book.Indisputable her huge contribution to the spiritual development of mankind for hundreds of years.According to biblical subjects written literary texts and scientific treatises, paintings and musical works.Images from the Book of Eternal depicted on icons, frescoes, sculptures.Contemporary art - the cinema - has not spared its side.This is the most popular and widely read book of all that ever held a human hand.
However, people have wondered for a long time, which quite clearly did not give an answer until now: a who wrote the Bible?Is she - God's providence?Can you unconditionally trust what is written there?
On the history issue
We know the following facts: The Bible was written almost two thousand years ago.More precisely, a little more than one thousand six hundred years.But the question is who wrote the Bible is not entirely correct from the point of view of the people of the faithful.Why is that?Because it would be more accurate to say - he wrote.After all, it created at different times by representatives of different social strata of society and even of different nationalities.And records are not their own thoughts, observations on life and what prompted them to the Lord.It is believed that those who wrote the Bible, led by God, putting their thoughts in their minds, leading them by hand on parchment or paper.Therefore, even though people write books, it contains is the word of God, and no one's more.In one of the texts of Scripture it is said directly: it is "inspired by God", ie,inspired, inspiring God.
But in the book a lot of inconsistencies, contradictions, "dark spots".Something is due to inaccurate translation of canonical texts that mistake of those who wrote the Bible, something our thoughtlessness.In addition, many texts of the Gospels were simply destroyed, burned.Many were not included in the basic content, it becomes apocryphal.Few people know that the majority of the fragments of the Holy Scriptures has been admitted to the masses after a particular ecumenical council.That is, strange as it may seem, but the human factor played a significant role in the incarnation of Divine Providence.
Why the Bible was written, but not passed, so to speak, its content word of mouth?It seems, therefore, that the oral one would be forgotten, other transmitting in distorted form, with speculation of another "pereskazchika."Written fixation allowed to avoid loss of data or unauthorized interpretations of it.Thus it provides some objectivity, it is possible to translate the book into other languages, to share with a variety of peoples and nations.
Does all of the above claim that all the authors only mechanically, thoughtlessly recorded thoughts "from above", like a sleepwalker?Not certainly in that way.From about the fourth century saints who wrote the Bible were considered its co-authors.Iepersonal element began to take place.This recognition came explain stylistic heterogeneity of the sacred texts, semantic and factual misunderstandings.
Thus, among the believers accepted that the Bible - it is the word of the Holy Spirit, and God's people, saints, apostles, it creates.It's kind of a spiritual experience, embodied in the human language.
Categories Bible
We all know what is in the Bible - Old and New Testaments.Old Testament - all that was before Christ.This is the story of creation, about the Jews, the people of God.It is worth mentioning that for the Jews the sacred power is only the first part of the Gospel.The Bible New Testament are not recognized.And the rest of the Christian world on the contrary - lives by the canons and precepts of the second part of the Bible.
volume of the Old Testament three times greater than the volume of the New.Both parts are complementary and individually do not quite understand.Each contains its own list of books that can be divided into groups: didactic, historical and prophetic.The total number of them is equal to sixty-six and drawn thirty authors, among whom were the shepherd Amos King David, the publican Matthew and Peter a fisherman, as well as a doctor, scientist, etc.
Some refinements
We can only add that for those distant from the faith, the Bible - a wonderful literary monument that has survived centuries and has earned the right to immortality.
