Just Who Wrote the Bible?
One arguement about the Bible being God's word is a very interesting thing, I always hear that it would be impossible for so many people to write books about the same thing, at such seperated amount of time, and from different parts of the world? It had to be God's word.
The Bible was written a very, very long time ago... well before copyrighting, worldwide networking, and so on. My "theory" is that the entire Bible was written by one person at one time. Interesting huh? Nobody as of yet has given me any proof of the Bible having multiple writers, I don't have any real proof that it wasn't, but I do have these ideas.
Even today there are authors who write books under other names, Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman is a prime example. So there could have been some writer, way back when, who wrote all of these books under different names, then claimed to have compiled all of these long lost writings, which in reality he wrote. Today that would be a hard hoax to pull off, but remember when the Bible was written, this was a time when it was very hard to disprove con-men. They couldn't disprove this man, there was no carbon dating, no neutron microscopes and dating methods, there were no records proving or disproving who this man was. So it could very well be written by one man at one time. Can you disprove this idea?
It could very well be that people did write the same stories at different times. I used to play this little bass line over in over in my head, and eventually switched it to playing it on my bass, a couple years later that line was released as "These Freaks Came Here to Party" by the Infectious Grooves. I really doubt Robert Trujillo was sitting outside of my window and stole my line, so was this line the work of God? I know what you are saying... that's 5 seconds and the Bible is numerous books and hundreds of pages. A big coincidence? What about people who wrote one book had read, or heard someone read the previous book?
Another idea is a pretty simple and commonly practiced one. The Bible may be nothing more than a collection of campfire stories passed down over time. It has been written that Noah's Ark was a favorite campfire tale of a northern African tribe way before the Bible was written. Not to mention that the Bible has a lot of contradictions, this would indicate that the tellers of the tales changed the stories a little to better suit their campfire companion's tastes. Then there is one big thing that tells me it could be campfire stories is that the Bible is written as the people saw the world at the time. It points towards a flat, stationary earth. It was believed at the time that the earth was flat, if you remember, most people thought Columbus was going to sail off the face of the earth. It was also believed that the earth could not possibly be moving because the shifting and spinning would throw all the animals off of the planet and buildings would crumble. These things which were believed to be true at the time, which are known beyond a shadow of a doubt now, with the advances in science are spread through out the Bible. If it was really written by God he would have known these things.
All I am asking is that someone proove me wrong. I have gotten things like "what about the dead sea scrolls?" or "What about parts of the ark that were found?" Let me Answer these for you now.
The Dead Sea Scrolls being found offers no proof. Anyone can plant something to be found later on. Look at the Cardiff Giant. In 1869 George Hull dug a well unearthed a 10 foot tall, 3,000 pound petrified person. Archeologists of the time as well as an assortment of doctors agreed it was a fossil. It turned out that the Mr. Hull had carved it from Iowa Gypsum and buried it a year earlier in hopes to prove the mention of giants in Genesis. There's one biblical hoax proven, how many more hoaxes could there be? Millions. You can read about the Cardiff Giant here The Cardiff Giant Hoax
So parts of the Ark were found huh? I was in the junk yard yesterday and found a piece of metal, it was twisted and burned and pretty old, so it most have been off of the Space Shuttle Challanger when it blew up. Then when I got home I noticed something in the woods behind my house, when I got up to it, I saw that it was some brown fur, obviously left by Sasquatch. Get my point?
So tell me what is the proof???