Who wrote the sacred text of Christianity?

Answer 1

The Christian Bible was written over many centuries, by a variety of people. The Old Testament was written by Jewish scholars over the centuries. The New Testament was an attempt to write down the oral traditions of the early Christian church, several generations after the events described in it. Several centuries later, the Pope formed a committee to decide which putative scriptures were accepted as canon and which were dismissed as apocrypha. Various other Christian communities have gone through their own processes of editing The Bible.

Answer 2

"Holy men of God spake as they were moved (Greek: enegko,borne along) by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21. It's the picture of the wind filling the sails on a ship and moving it along. The ship is not the power behind the movement., neither is man the power behind the writing of the Scriptures, but God.

Over 40 men wrote the books of the Bible in a span of 1400 to 1600 years under God's leading, all amazingly agreeing with each other. This is the work of God among us.

Answer 3

Apart from the Old Testament, the sacred texts of Christianity are traditionally the gospels, epistles, Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation, that together form the New Testament.

The Gospels were written in Greek by anonymous authors, but were later attributed by second-century Church Fathers, to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, it is considered unlikely that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were the real authors.

Scholars say that the Gospel According to St. Mark was written around 70 CE. Matthew was the next New Testament Gospel, probably written in the 80s CE, and used Mark as its main source for information about the life of Jesus. Luke is believed to have been written in the 90s of the first century, or early in the second century CE, and also used Mark as its main source of information about the life of Jesus. John was the last of the New Testament gospels and appears to have used both Luke and Mark as sources.

Thirteen epistles have been attributed to Paul and, of these, at least seven are widely considered to be genuine: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Galatians, Philippians and 1 Thessalonians. That is to say, these were really written by Paul himself. The remainder were written in his name by his disciples or other Christians.

The epistles of James, John, Jude and Peter are generally considered to be pseudographical. That is, they were written in the names of the apostles by anonymous authors. Some of the material may be pre-Christian.

Hebrews is not really a letter, in the style of Paul's epistles. Its author is unknown, but it may have originally have been a sermon.

Revelation was clearly not written by the same author as John's Gospel and was probably developed over a long period by more than one author.

Answer 4

THE VEDAS are the most important and sacred texts of Hindus. The Vedas are the world's most ancient scripture.

The earliest written Vedas date to about 1400 B.C.E (Before the Common Era), but the songs they capture in letters are a great deal older, although no one can say by how much.

The language of the Vedas is Sanskrit, a language that is so holy that the very word Sanskrit means "perfect".

There are four Vedas:

• The Rig Veda
• The Sama Veda
• The Yajur Veda
• The Atharvana Veda

Each Veda has four layers:

• Samhithas (a collection of hymns)
• Brahmanas (directions about sacrifice)
• Aranyaka (the forest songs)
• Upanishads (which searches for the meaning behind it all)

Also the author / authors of the great Vedas are mostly unknown.

Other sacred texts of Hindus and their authors are:

• Ramayana - Valmiki Maharshi.
• Mahabharata - The first section of the Mahabharata states that it was Ganesha who, at the request of Vyasa, wrote down the text to Vyasa's dictation.
• Bhagwad Geeta - The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th through 42nd and consists of 700 verses. Its authorship is traditionally ascribed to Vyasa, the compiler of the Mahabharata.
• Srimad Bhagvatam or Bhagavata Purana - The text itself credits Veda Vyasa with its authorship.
• Manusmriti - According to Hindu tradition, the Manusmriti records the words of Brahma. Though most scholars had previously considered the text a composite put together over a long period of time, Olivelle has recently argued that the complex and consistent structure of the text suggests a single author. However, no details of this eponymous author's life are known.
• Shiva Purana - According to tradition, it originally consisted 12 Saṁhitās and 100,000 Å›lokas (verses). After the reconstruction and the abridgement by Veda Vyasa, the extant text comprises 24000 Å›lokas (verses), which he taught to his disciple Romaharshana (or Lomaharshana).