Who exactly wrote all 3 "Good Books"?
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:59 pm
I've always wanted to know this. Who wrote and how did they write the:
a) Bible
b) Qu ran/Koran
c) Torah/Pentateuch/Tanakh
From my observations in life I've seen people take the written word quite literally and if that's what works for them, fine. I respect that. But I wonder if anybody else besides myself wonders how say, the book of Ruth was actually put together and how it was done or how Christians absolutely know factually that Christ and the Virgin Mary really existed, the Muslims know that Allah and Muhammud existed and why it took 20 to 25 years to write the Koran and how exactly that was done. How and why did Judaism only take the first 5 books of Moses - did he really exist??? - and how did that morph into 613 commandments? And that's not even the tip of the iceberg.
I spend a lot of time thinking about these things as I am an inquisitive person who loves to learn new things daily and I wonder how many others are like me or are most devout followers of their faith totally without questions and just blindly and literally follow as I've seen in my experiences.
Here is a link to an interesting site I found this week: bib-arch.org/e-features/searching-for-b ... r-text.asp
a) Bible
b) Qu ran/Koran
c) Torah/Pentateuch/Tanakh
From my observations in life I've seen people take the written word quite literally and if that's what works for them, fine. I respect that. But I wonder if anybody else besides myself wonders how say, the book of Ruth was actually put together and how it was done or how Christians absolutely know factually that Christ and the Virgin Mary really existed, the Muslims know that Allah and Muhammud existed and why it took 20 to 25 years to write the Koran and how exactly that was done. How and why did Judaism only take the first 5 books of Moses - did he really exist??? - and how did that morph into 613 commandments? And that's not even the tip of the iceberg.
I spend a lot of time thinking about these things as I am an inquisitive person who loves to learn new things daily and I wonder how many others are like me or are most devout followers of their faith totally without questions and just blindly and literally follow as I've seen in my experiences.
Here is a link to an interesting site I found this week: bib-arch.org/e-features/searching-for-b ... r-text.asp