Bible Authorship
“… the Church wrote the Bible ….”[1]
This is another deceptive
half-truth. God wrote the Bible in
Conversations between God and Prophets or Apostles, which the same Apostles and
Prophets faithfully recorded.
In the first century that Bible
was already complete, or nearly complete for roughly one hundred years.[2] This Bible is and was, during the first
century, as it was translated in Greek, the Old Testament of significance in
The Church of the New Testament. Reports
of an authoritative MT are a Jewish fable.
The only portions that could possibly be missing from it in 100 BC are
portions of the Deuterocanon written after 100 BC. By 4 BC, the Old Testament is complete and
contains all 39 Canonical books, as well as all of the Deuterocanon. The expunging of the Deuterocanon is an act
of the Jews, in the flesh, carried out after 70 AD.
The Church had nothing to do
with the writing of this document; yet, it is perfectly fundamental, and even
mandatory for the formation of The New Testament Church, which was not born
until 33 AD. Not only is The Church a
non-contributor to this Bible, but Jesus Himself is its perfect author,
fulfillment, and interpreter, without any contribution from The Church. Jesus is the One who receives and makes this
Bible, the entire Old Testament in Greek, Canonical without the aid of humans,
other than as an Apostolic witnesses of the truth.
It is this Apostolic witness
which constructs The Church and records the New Testament, and not The Church
herself. It is false and naïve to claim
that, “… the Church wrote the Bible ….” The
fact is that both are a continuation of something older, and they grew up side
by side as family, and family picture album.
[1] This
comment is not referenced, because it is not the intent of this paper to
discredit any author or book, but only to correct those impressions which have
failed to reach the Truth. The misunderstanding
of these points continues to be an obstacle to the Unity of The Church. Since these points are historically
determined, many of them are verifiable from the Scripture itself. The reader is free, even encouraged to refute
them.
[2] For
a thorough discussion of the completion and dating of the Greek Old Testament,
sometimes called the Septuagint, see Beckwith, Roger T., The Old
Testament Canon of The New Testament Church, (Wipf and Stock, Eugene,
OR; previously published by SPCK, London: 1985, 528 pages).
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