Who wrote the Bible?
4 min readMar 17, 2023
What is the Pentateuch?
It is Lent & we have foreign visitors at Sunday school. They challenge the team to answer their questions about the bible.
So The team comes up with an answer. I joined the group to help me be a better person with gratitude for God’s graciousness.
The Bible is the most popular book in the world. Parts of it have been translated into over a thousand seven hundred languages.
The Bible is a revelation, and the belief is that God has revealed Himself & His ways to man in Holy Scripture.
This is the Christian worldview. In it, we have direct access to a revelation from a personal Being Who created all things & Who is not subject to our limitations as fragile, finite creatures.
Two forms of revelations are described in the Bible: According to Psalm 19:1–6 and Romans 1:20, God has revealed truths about “His invisible attributes — His eternal power and Godhead” to us through His creation.
In addition, God has implanted the knowledge of His existence in every human heart, although many choose to suppress this truth in unrighteousness (Rom.1:18).
God’s exceptional direct communication occurred most clearly in the person of Christ (Heb.1:1–2) and the pages of Scripture.
Also, to some people, God communicated via dreams, visions, and angels.
The Scriptures reveal God’s plan to bring redemption to the earth & to make all things new in Christ.
The God of the Bible is both the Creator and the Redeemer, and the cross is portrayed as the central event in history. The Old Testament anticipates the work of the Messiah, and the New Testament points back to Jesus as the Author and Perfector of faith (Heb. 12:2). Christ is the Alpha and the Omega. (Rev.22:13). Christ is the key to the Scriptures, the One of whom the entire Old Testament spoke(Luke 24:44–46).
The thirty-nine books of the Old Testament provide the foundation upon which the superstructure of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament is built.
The Scriptures claim to be entirely divine and completely human.
The Bible means “The Book,” derived from the Greek word “biblos,” which means “book, scroll.”
The Bible was produced over a period of about one thousand five hundred years.
In addition, the backgrounds of more than forty authors were so diverse. They include Samuel, the judge. Amos, the sheep breeder. Ezra, the priest; Nehemiah, the statesman; and a host of scribes, kings, prophets, poets, musicians, philosophers, farmers, and teachers.
The New Testament writers include a tax collector, a physician, a tentmaker, fishermen, and carpenters.
Biblical people like Moses, Isaiah, and Paul, were highly educated, while others were unschooled.
The Bible contains the work of freeman and slave, landholder and yeoman, prosperous and poor.
Its chapters were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. And on three continents.
The Bible is a divine library containing prophecy, history, law, poetry, hymns, wisdom literature, stories, biographies, letters, oratory, parables, philosophy, drama, exposition, and sermons.
The Scriptures are unique in quantity, quality, and antiquity of their manuscripts.
Pentateuch.
These are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible: Moses is believed to have written these books.
Genesis — the beginning, God’s creation, the fall of man, the flood, Abraham & his descendants.
Exodus — Redemption. Jacobs’s descendants, bondage in Egypt, Moses.
Leviticus — Worship, sanctification, service, obedience.
Numbers — Wandering in the wilderness. The new generation reaches Moab.
Deuteronomy — Renewed Covenant. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor. He views the Promised Land from Mount Nebo before his death.
Thank you, readers, for your time.
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