Who wrote the Bible and when - interesting facts. Who wrote the Bible? Where did she come from? Answered by priest Afanasy Gumerov, resident of Sretensky Monastery

“It has served us well, this myth of Christ...” Pope Leo X, 16th century.

“Everything will be fine!” said God and created the Earth. Then he created the sky and all kinds of creatures in pairs, he also did not forget about vegetation, so that the creatures had something to eat, and, of course, he created man in his own image and likeness, so that there would be someone to dominate and make fun of at his mistakes and violations of the commandments of the Lord ...

Almost each of us is sure that this is what actually happened. What does the supposedly holy book, which is so ingenuously called, assure? "Book", only in Greek. But it was its Greek name that caught on, "Bible", from which in turn came the name of the book repositories - LIBRARIES.

But even here there is a deception, which few or no one pays attention to. Believers are well aware that this Book consists of 77 the lesser books and the two parts of the Old and New Testaments. Does any of us know that hundreds other small books were not included in this big Book only because the church “bosses” - the high priests - the intermediate link, the so-called intermediaries between people and God, decided so among themselves. Wherein changed several times not only the composition of the books included in the largest Book itself, but also the contents of these smallest books.

I am not going to analyze the Bible once again; before me, many wonderful people read it with feeling, sense and understanding several times, who thought about what was written in the “holy scripture” and presented what they saw in their works, such as “Biblical Truth” "David Naidis, "Funny Bible" and "Funny Gospel" by Leo Texil, "Bible Pictures..." by Dmitry Baida and Elena Lyubimova, "Crusade" by Igor Melnik. Read these books and you will learn about the Bible from a different perspective. Yes, and I am more than sure that believers do not read the Bible, because if they read it, it would be impossible not to notice so many contradictions, inconsistencies, substitution of concepts, deception and lies, not to mention calls for extermination of all the peoples of the Earth, God's chosen people. And these people themselves were destroyed several times at the root during the selection process, until their god selected a group of perfect zombies who very well assimilated all his commandments and instructions, and, most importantly, strictly followed them, for which they were pardoned with life and continuation sort of, and... new religion.

In this work, I want to draw your attention to what is not included in the above canonical books, or what hundreds of other sources say, no less interesting than the “holy” scripture. So, let's look at the biblical facts and more.

The first skeptic, who pointed out the impossibility of calling Moses the author of the Pentateuch (and this is what Christian and Jewish authorities assure us of), was a certain Persian Jew Khivi Gabalki, who lived in the 9th century. He noticed that in some books Moses talks about himself in the third person. Moreover, sometimes Moses allows himself to do extremely immodest things: for example, he can characterize himself as the meekest man of all people on earth (book of Numbers) or say: “...there was no more prophet in Israel like Moses” (Deuteronomy).

The theme was further developed by the Dutch materialist philosopher Benedict Spinoza, who wrote his famous “Theological-Political Treatise” in the 17th century. Spinoza “dug up” so many inconsistencies and outright blunders in the Bible - for example, Moses describes his own funeral - that no amount of inquisition could stop the growing doubts.

At the beginning of the 18th century, first the German Lutheran pastor Witter, and then the French physician Jean Astruc made the discovery that the Old Testament consists of two texts with different primary sources. That is, some events in the Bible are told twice, and in the first version the name of God sounds like Elohim, and in the second - Yahweh. It turned out that virtually all the so-called books of Moses were compiled during the period of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, i.e. much later This is what the rabbis and priests claim, and clearly could not have been written by Moses.

Series of archaeological expeditions to Egypt, including the expedition of the Hebrew University, did not find any traces of such an epoch-making biblical event as the exodus of the Jewish people from this country in the 14th century BC. Not a single ancient source, be it papyrus or an Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform tablet, ever mentions the presence of Jews in Egyptian captivity at this time. There are references to the later Jesus, but not to Moses!

And Professor Ze'ev Herzog in the Haaretz newspaper summed up many years of scientific research on the Egyptian question: “It may be unpleasant for some to hear and difficult to accept, but it is absolutely clear to researchers today that the Jewish people were not enslaved in Egypt and did not wander in the desert ..." But the Jewish people were enslaved in Babylonia (modern Iraq) and adopted many legends and traditions from there, later including them in a revised form in the Old Testament. Among them was the legend of the global flood.

Josephus Flavius Vespasian, the famous Jewish historian and military leader who allegedly lived in the 1st century AD, in his book “On the Antiquity of the Jewish People,” which was first published only in 1544, moreover, in Greek, establishes the number books of the so-called Old Testament in the amount of 22 units and says which books are not disputed among the Jews, for they have been handed down from ancient times. He speaks of them in the following words:

“We don’t have a thousand books that disagree with each other and don’t refute one another; there are only twenty-two books that cover the entire past and are rightly considered Divine. Of these, five belong to Moses. They contain laws and legends about the generations of people who lived before his death - this is a period of almost three thousand years. The events from the death of Moses to the death of Artaxerxes, who reigned in Persia after Xerxes, were described in thirteen books by the prophets who lived after Moses, contemporaries of what was happening. The remaining books contain hymns to God and instructions to people on how to live. Everything that happened from Artaxerxes to our time is described, but these books do not deserve the same faith as the above-mentioned ones, because their authors were not in strict succession with the prophets. How we treat our books is evident in practice: so many centuries have passed, and no one dared to add anything to them, or take anything away, or rearrange anything; Jews have an innate belief in this teaching as Divine: it should be held firmly, and if necessary, then die for it with joy ... "

The Bible as we know it consists of 77 books, of which 50 books are the Old Testament and 27 are the New. But, as you can see for yourself, back in the Middle Ages, only 22 books were recognized as part of the so-called Old Testament. Only 22 books! And these days, the old part of the Bible has swollen almost 2.5 times. And it was inflated by books containing a fictitious past for the Jews, a past that they did not have; a past stolen from other nations and appropriated by the Jews. By the way, the name of the people - Jews - carries their essence and means “cutting out the UD”, which is circumcision. And UD is the ancient name of the male genital organ, which also has meaning in words such as fishing rod, fishing rod, satisfaction.

The evolution of the Bible as a single book lasted several centuries, and this is confirmed by the churchmen themselves in their internal books, written for the clergy, and not for the flock. And this church struggle continues to this day, despite the fact that the Jerusalem Council of 1672 issued a “Definition”: “We believe that this Divine and Holy Scripture is communicated by God, and therefore we must believe it without any reasoning, not like anyone else.” wants, but how it was interpreted and transmitted by the Catholic Church.”

In the 85th Apostolic Canon, the 60th Canon of the Laodicean Council, the 33rd (24) Canon of the Carthage Council and in the 39th Canonical Epistle of St. Athanasius, in the canons of St. Gregory the Theologian and Amphilochius of Iconium provide lists of the sacred books of the Old and New Testaments. And these lists do not completely coincide. Thus, in the 85th Apostolic Canon, in addition to the canonical Old Testament books, non-canonical books are also named: 3 books of the Maccabees, the book of Jesus son of Sirach, and between the New Testament books - two epistles of Clement of Rome and 8 books of the Apostolic Constitutions, but the Apocalypse is not mentioned. There is no mention of the Apocalypse in the 60th rule of the Laodicean Council, in the poetic catalog of the Holy Books of St. Gregory the Theologian.

Athanasius the Great said this about the Apocalypse: “The Revelation of John is now ranked among the Holy Books, and many call it inauthentic.” In the list of canonical Old Testament books by St. Athanasius does not mention Esther, which he, along with the Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, Judith and the book of Tobit, as well as “The Shepherd of Hermas” and “The Apostolic Doctrine”, ranks among the books “appointed by the Fathers for reading to newcomers and those wishing to make themselves known in the word of piety "

The 33rd (24th) rule of the Council of Carthage offers the following list of canonical biblical books: “The canonical scriptures are these: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Kings four books; Chronicles two, Job, Psalms, Solomon books four. There are twelve prophetic books, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Tobias, Judith, Esther, Ezra two books. New Testament: four Gospels, one book of the Acts of the Apostles, fourteen Epistles of Paul, two of Peter the Apostle, three of John the Apostle, one book of James the Apostle, one book of Jude the Apostle. The Apocalypse of John is one book."

Strangely, in the English translation of the Bible of 1568, the so-called "Bishops" Bible, only two books of Kings are mentioned. And this Bible itself consists of 73 books instead 77 as currently approved.

Only in XIII century, the biblical books were divided into chapters, and only in XVI century the chapters were divided into verses. In addition, before forming the biblical canon, the churchmen went through more than one heap of primary sources - small books, selecting the “correct” texts, which later formed a large book - the Bible. It is from their input that we can judge the affairs of bygone days, described in the Old and New Testaments. Therefore it turns out that Bible, which many may have read, was formed as a single book, only in the 18th century! And only a few Russian translations of it have reached us, the most famous of which is the Synodal translation.

From Valery Erchak’s book “The Word and Deed of Ivan the Terrible,” we became aware of the first mentions of the Bible in Rus', and these turned out to be just psalters: “In Rus', only lists of the books of the New Testament and the Psalter were recognized (the oldest list is the Galich Gospel, 1144). The full text of the Bible was first translated only in 1499 on the initiative of the Novgorod Archbishop Gennady Gonozov or Gonzov (1484-1504, Chudov Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin), who undertook this work in connection with the heresy of the Judaizers. In Rus', various service books were used. For example, the Gospel-aprakos existed in two varieties: the full aprakos includes the entire gospel text, the short one includes only the Gospel of John, the rest of the gospels amount to no more than 30-40% of the text. The Gospel of John was read in full. In modern liturgical practice, the Gospel of John ch. 8, verse 44, one does not read about the genealogy of the Jewish family...”

Why is the Bible called the Synodal Bible and why is it the most popular?

It's simple. It turns out that only synod The Russian Orthodox Church is a council of the highest church hierarchs, has the right at its discretion INTERPRET texts of the Bible, edit them as they please, introduce or remove any books from the Bible, approve biographies of supposedly holy church men, and much more.

So who wrote this supposedly holy book and what is sacred in it?

Only in Russian there are the following translations of the Bible: Gennady's Bible (XV century), Ostrog Bible (XVI century), Elizabethan Bible (XVIII century), translation of the Bible by Archimandrite Macarius, Synodal translation of the Bible (XIX century), and in 2011 the latest version was published Bibles - The Bible in modern Russian translation. That text of the Russian Bible, which is known to all of us, and which is called the synodal, first came out of print only in 1876 year. And this happened almost three centuries later, after the appearance of the original Church Slavonic Bible. And these, let me remind you, are only Russian translations of the Bible, and there are at least 6 known translations among them.

But the Bible has been translated into all languages of the world and in different eras. And, thanks to this, the translators have inherited, and almost identical texts of the Bible still reflect some points differently. And where they forgot to erase, for example, prohibited references to the area or descriptions of the weather, or names or names of attractions, the original texts remained there, which shed the light of truth on what happened in those not so ancient times in general. And they help a thinking person put together the scattered pieces of the mosaic into a single and complete picture in order to get a more or less complete picture of our past.

Recently, I came across a book by Erich von Däniken "Aliens from outer space. New finds and discoveries", which consists of individual articles by different authors on the topic of the cosmic origin of humanity. One of the articles in this book is called "The Original Biblical Texts" by Walter-Jörg Langbein. I would like to quote some of the facts he found to you, since they reveal a lot about the so-called truth of biblical texts. In addition, these conclusions are in excellent agreement with the other facts about the Bible given above. So, Langbein wrote that the biblical texts are filled with errors, which for some reason believers do not pay any attention to:

“The “original” biblical texts available today are filled with thousands upon thousands of easily detectable and well-known errors. The most famous "original" text, Codex Sinaiticus (Code Sinaiticus), contains no less 16,000 corrections, the “authorship” of which belongs to seven different proofreaders. Some passages were changed three times and replaced by a fourth "original" text. The theologian Friedrich Delitzsch, compiler of a Hebrew dictionary, found in this “original” text only errors scribe about 3000…»

I have highlighted the most important things. And these facts are simply impressive! It is not surprising that they are carefully hidden from everyone, not only religious fanatics, but even sensible people who are looking for the truth and want to figure out for themselves the issue of creating the Bible.

Professor Robert Kehl from Zurich wrote about the issue of falsifications in ancient biblical texts: “It happened quite often that the same passage was “corrected” by one proofreader in one sense, and “transported” by another in the opposite sense, depending on what dogmatic views were held in the corresponding school ... "

“Without exception, all of the “original” biblical texts existing today are copies of copies, and those, presumably, in turn, are copies of copies. Neither copy is the same as any other. There are over 80,000 (!) discrepancies. From copy to copy, the elements were perceived differently by empathetic scribes and remade in the spirit of the times. With such a mass of falsifications and contradictions, to continue to talk about the “word of the Lord”, every time picking up the Bible, means bordering on schizophrenia ... "

I cannot but agree with Langbein, and, having a lot of other evidence for this, I absolutely confirm his conclusions.

“It has served us well, this myth of Christ...”

Wherein changed several times not only the composition of the books included in the largest Book itself, but also the contents of these smallest books.

Read these books and you will learn about the Bible from a different perspective. Yes, and I am more than sure that believers do not read the Bible, because if they read it, it would be impossible not to notice so many contradictions, inconsistencies, substitution of concepts, deception and lies, not to mention calls for extermination of all the peoples of the Earth, God's chosen people.

And these people themselves were destroyed several times at the root during the selection process, until their god selected a group of perfect zombies who very well assimilated all his commandments and instructions, and, most importantly, strictly followed them, for which they were pardoned with life and continuation sort of, and... new religion.

In this work I would like to draw your attention to the fact that what is not included in the above canonical books, or what hundreds of other sources no less interesting than the “holy” scripture say. So, let's look at the biblical facts and more.

The first skeptic, who pointed out the impossibility of calling Moses the author of the Pentateuch (and this is what Christian and Jewish authorities assure us of), was a certain Persian Jew Khivi Gabalki, who lived in the 9th century. He noticed that in some books Moses talks about himself in the third person. Moreover, sometimes Moses allows himself extremely immodest things: for example, he can characterize himself as the meekest man of all people on earth (book of Numbers) or say: “...Israel never again had a prophet like Moses.”(Deuteronomy).

Further developed the topic Dutch materialist philosopher Benedict Spinoza, who wrote his famous “Theological-Political Treatise” in the 17th century. Spinoza “dug up” so many inconsistencies and outright blunders in the Bible - for example, Moses describes his own funeral - that no amount of inquisition could stop the growing doubts.

At the beginning of the 18th century, first the German Lutheran pastor Witter, and then the French physician Jean Astruc made the discovery that the Old Testament consists of two texts with different primary sources. That is, some events in the Bible are told twice, and in the first version the name of God sounds like Elohim, and in the second - Yahweh. It turned out that virtually all the so-called books of Moses were compiled during the period of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, i.e. much later, than the rabbis and priests claim, and clearly could not have been written by Moses.

And Professor Zeev Herzog in the Haaretz newspaper summed up many years of scientific research on the Egyptian issue: “It may be unpleasant for some to hear and difficult to accept, but it is absolutely clear to researchers today that the Jewish people were not enslaved in Egypt and did not wander in the desert...” But the Jewish people were enslaved in Babylonia (modern Iraq) and adopted many legends and traditions from there, later including them in a revised form in the Old Testament. Among them was the legend of the global flood.

The Bible as we know it consists of 77 books, of which 50 books are the Old Testament and 27 are the New. But, as you can see for yourself, back in the Middle Ages, only 22 books were recognized as part of the so-called Old Testament. Only 22 books! And these days, the old part of the Bible has swollen almost 2.5 times. And it was inflated by books containing a fictitious past for the Jews, a past that they did not have; a past stolen from other nations and appropriated by the Jews. By the way, the name of the people - Jews - carries their essence and means “cutting out the UD”, which is circumcision. And UD is the ancient name of the male genital organ, which also has meaning in words such as fishing rod, fishing rod, satisfaction.

The evolution of the Bible as a single book lasted several centuries, and this is confirmed by the churchmen themselves in their internal books, written for the clergy, and not for the flock. And this church struggle continues to this day, despite the fact that the Jerusalem Council of 1672 issued a “Definition”: “We believe that this Divine and Sacred Scripture was communicated by God, and therefore we must believe it without any reasoning, not as anyone wants, but as the Catholic Church has interpreted and transmitted it.”.

Athanasius the Great said this about the Apocalypse: “The Revelation of John is now ranked among the Holy Books, and many call it inauthentic.”. In the list of canonical Old Testament books by St. Athanasius does not mention Esther, which he, along with the Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, Judith and the book of Tobit, as well as “The Shepherd of Hermas” and “The Apostolic Doctrine”, ranks among the books “appointed by the Fathers for reading to newcomers and those wishing to make themselves known in the word of piety "

Only in XIII century, the biblical books were divided into chapters, and only in XVI century the chapters were divided into verses. In addition, before forming the biblical canon, the churchmen went through more than one heap of primary sources - small books, selecting the “correct” texts, which later formed a large book - the Bible. It is from their input that we can judge the affairs of bygone days, described in the Old and New Testaments. Therefore it turns out that Bible, which many may have read, was formed as a single book, only in the 18th century! And only a few Russian translations of it have reached us, the most famous of which is the Synodal translation.

Why is the Bible called the Synodal Bible and why is it the most popular?

So who wrote this supposedly holy book and what is sacred in it?

“The “original” biblical texts available today are filled with thousands upon thousands of easily detectable and well-known errors. The most famous "original" text, Codex Sinaiticus(Code Sinaiticus), contains at least 16,000 corrections, the “authorship” of which belongs to seven different proofreaders. Some passages were changed three times and replaced by a fourth "original" text. The theologian Friedrich Delitzsch, compiler of a Hebrew dictionary, found in this “original” text only errors scribe about 3000…»

I cannot but agree with Langbein, and, having a lot of other evidence for this, I absolutely confirm his conclusions.

But here is the fact of when and where the famous evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote their new testaments. Famous English writer Charles Dickens wrote a book in the 19th century called "Child's History of England". This is translated into Russian as “History of England for young (children).” This interesting book was published in the mid-19th century in London. And it tells about English rulers whom young Englishmen should have known well. This book says in black and white that during the coronation of Princess Elizabeth I, four evangelists and a certain Saint Paul were prisoners in England and received freedom under an amnesty.

In 2005, this book was published in Russia. I will give a small fragment from it (chapter XXXI): “...The coronation went off magnificently, and the next day one of the courtiers, according to custom, submitted a petition to Elizabeth for the release of several prisoners and among them four evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as well as St. Paul, who for some time were forced to express themselves in such a strange language that people have completely forgotten how to understand. But the queen replied that it was better to first find out from the saints themselves whether they wanted freedom, and then a grandiose public discussion was scheduled in Westminster Abbey - a kind of religious tournament - with the participation of some of the most prominent champions of both faiths (by other faith we mean , most likely Protestant).

As you understand, all sensible people quickly realized that only understandable words should be repeated and read. In this regard, it was decided to conduct church services in English, accessible to all, and other laws and regulations were adopted that revived the most important cause of the Reformation. However, Catholic bishops and adherents of the Roman Church were not persecuted, and the royal ministers showed prudence and mercy...”

Written testimony of Charles Dickens (he wrote this book for his children, and whom he clearly had no intention of deceiving), that Evangelists lived in the 16th century, published about 150 years ago in England, cannot be discarded so easily. This automatically follows the irrefutable conclusion that the New Testament of the Bible was written, at the earliest, in the 16th century! And it immediately becomes clear that this so-called Christian religion is based on a big lie! That “good news” - this is how the word “gospel” is translated from Greek - is nothing more than cynical fiction, and there is nothing good in them.

But that's not all. The description of the construction of the walls of Jerusalem, given in the book of Nehemiah, in all respects coincides with the description of the construction of the Moscow Kremlin (according to Nosovsky and Fomenko), which was carried out... also in the 16th century. What happens then is that not only the New Testament, but also the Old Testament, i.e. the whole Bible, was written in recent times - in the 16th century!

The facts I have given will certainly be enough for any thinking person to start digging and looking for confirmation himself, to add up his own integrity of understanding of what is happening. But even this will not be enough for false skeptics. No matter how much information you give them, you still won’t convince them of anything! For in terms of their level of knowledge they are at the level of small children, because believe mindlessly- much easier than know! Therefore, you need to speak to children in their children's language.

And if any of the respected readers has more information on this issue, and someone has something to complement and expand on the facts I have collected, I will be grateful if you share your knowledge! These materials will also be useful for the future book, the materials from which were taken to write this article. My e-mail address: [email protected]

Alexander Novak

“It has served us well, this myth of Christ...” Pope Leo X, 16th century.

Almost each of us is sure that this is what actually happened. What does the supposedly holy book, which is so ingenuously called “The Book,” only say in Greek? But it was its Greek name that caught on, “Bible,” from which in turn came the name of the book repositories, the LIBRARY.

But even here there is a deception, which few or no one pays attention to. Believers are well aware that this Book consists of 77 smaller books and two parts of the Old and New Testaments. But does any of us know that hundreds of other small books were not included in this big Book only because the church “bosses” - the high priests - the intermediate link, the so-called intermediaries between people and God, decided so among themselves. At the same time, not only the composition of the books included in the large Book itself changed repeatedly, but also the contents of these smallest books.

I am not going to analyze the Bible once again; before me, many wonderful people read it with feeling, sense and understanding several times, who thought about what was written in the “holy scripture” and presented what they saw in their works, such as “Biblical Truth” "David Naidis, "Funny Bible" and "Funny Gospel" by Leo Texil, "Bible pictures..." by Dmitry Baida and Elena Lyubimova, "Crusade" by Igor Melnik. Read these books and you will learn about the Bible from a different perspective. Yes, and I am more than sure that believers do not read the Bible, because if they read it, it would be impossible not to notice so many contradictions, inconsistencies, substitution of concepts, deception and lies, not to mention calls for extermination of all the peoples of the Earth, God's chosen people. And these people themselves were destroyed several times at the root during the selection process, until their god selected a group of perfect zombies who very well assimilated all his commandments and instructions, and, most importantly, strictly followed them, for which they were pardoned with life and continuation kind of thing, and... a new religion.

The first skeptic to point out the impossibility of calling Moses the author of the Pentateuch (and this is precisely what Christian and Jewish authorities assure us of) was a certain Persian Jew Khivi Gabalki, who lived in the 9th century. He noticed that in some books Moses talks about himself in the third person. Moreover, sometimes Moses allows himself to do extremely immodest things: for example, he can characterize himself as the meekest man of all people on earth (book of Numbers) or say: “...there was no more prophet in Israel like Moses” (Deuteronomy).

At the beginning of the 18th century, first the German Lutheran pastor Witter, and then the French physician Jean Astruc, made the discovery that the Old Testament consists of two texts with different primary sources. That is, some events in the Bible are told twice, and in the first version the name of God sounds like Elohim, and in the second - Yahweh. It turned out that virtually all the so-called books of Moses were compiled during the period of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, i.e. much later than the rabbis and priests claim, and clearly could not have been written by Moses.

A series of archaeological expeditions to Egypt, including the expedition of the Hebrew University, did not find any traces of such an epoch-making biblical event as the exodus of the Jewish people from this country in the 14th century BC. Not a single ancient source, be it papyrus or an Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform tablet, ever mentions the presence of Jews in Egyptian captivity at this time. There are references to the later Jesus, but not to Moses!

The Bible as we know it consists of 77 books, of which 50 books are the Old Testament and 27 are the New. But, as you can see for yourself, back in the Middle Ages, only 22 books were recognized as part of the so-called Old Testament. Only 22 books! And these days, the old part of the Bible has swollen almost 2.5 times. And it was inflated by books containing a fictitious past for the Jews, a past that they did not have; a past stolen from other nations and appropriated by the Jews. By the way, the name of the people - Jews - carries their essence and means “cutting out the UD”, which is circumcision. And UD is the ancient name of the male genital organ, which also has meaning in words such as fishing rod, fishing rod, satisfaction.

Strangely, in the 1568 English translation of the Bible, the so-called “Bishops’ Bible,” only two books of Kings are mentioned. And this Bible itself consists of 73 books instead of 77, as is currently approved.

It was only in the 13th century that the biblical books were divided into chapters, and only in the 16th century were the chapters divided into verses. In addition, before forming the biblical canon, the churchmen went through more than one heap of primary sources - small books, selecting the “correct” texts, which later formed a large book - the Bible. It is from their input that we can judge the affairs of bygone days, described in the Old and New Testaments. Therefore, it turns out that the Bible, which many may have read, was formed as a single book only in the 18th century! And only a few Russian translations of it have reached us, the most famous of which is the Synodal translation.

From Valery Erchak’s book “The Word and Deed of Ivan the Terrible,” we became aware of the first mentions of the Bible in Rus', and these turned out to be just psalters: “In Rus', only lists of books of the New Testament and Psalms were recognized (the oldest list is the Galich Gospel, 1144. ). The full text of the Bible was first translated only in 1499 on the initiative of the Novgorod Archbishop Gennady Gonozov or Gonzov (1484-1504, Chudov Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin), who undertook this work in connection with the heresy of the Judaizers. In Rus', various service books were used. For example, the Gospel-aprakos existed in two varieties: the full aprakos includes the entire gospel text, the short one includes only the Gospel of John, the rest of the gospels amount to no more than 30-40% of the text. The Gospel of John was read in full. In modern liturgical practice, the Gospel of John ch. 8, verse 44, one does not read about the genealogy of the Jewish family...”

Why is the Bible called the Synodal Bible and why is it the most popular?

It's simple. It turns out that only the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church - a council of the highest church hierarchs - has the right, at its discretion, to INTERPRET the texts of the Bible, edit them as they please, introduce or remove any books from the Bible, approve biographies of supposedly holy church men, and much more.

So who wrote this supposedly holy book and what is sacred in it?

Only in Russian there are the following translations of the Bible: Gennady's Bible (XV century), Ostrog Bible (XVI century), Elizabethan Bible (XVIII century), translation of the Bible by Archimandrite Macarius, Synodal translation of the Bible (XIX century), and in 2011 the latest version was published Bibles – The Bible in modern Russian translation. That text of the Russian Bible, which is known to all of us, and which is called the synodal, first came out of print only in 1876. And this happened almost three centuries later, after the appearance of the original Church Slavonic Bible. And these, let me remind you, are only Russian translations of the Bible, and there are at least 6 known translations among them.

Recently, I came across Erich von Däniken’s book “Aliens from Outer Space. New finds and discoveries”, which consists of individual articles by different authors on the topic of the cosmic origin of humanity. One of the articles in this book is called "The Original Biblical Texts" by Walter-Jörg Langbein. I would like to quote some of the facts he found to you, since they reveal a lot about the so-called truth of biblical texts. In addition, these conclusions are in excellent agreement with the other facts about the Bible given above. So, Langbein wrote that the biblical texts are filled with errors, which for some reason believers do not pay any attention to:

“The “original” biblical texts available today are filled with thousands upon thousands of easily detectable and well-known errors. The most famous "original" text, the Codex Sinaiticus (Codex Sinaiticus), contains no less than 16,000 corrections, the "authorship" of which belongs to seven different proofreaders. Some passages were changed three times and replaced by a fourth "original" text. The theologian Friedrich Delitzsch, compiler of a Hebrew dictionary, found in this “original” text about 3000 copyist errors alone...”

“Without exception, all of the “original” biblical texts existing today are copies of copies, and those, presumably, in turn, are copies of copies. Neither copy is the same as any other. There are over 80,000 (!) discrepancies. From copy to copy, the elements were perceived differently by empathetic scribes and remade in the spirit of the times. With such a mass of falsifications and contradictions, to continue to talk about the “word of the Lord”, every time picking up the Bible, means bordering on schizophrenia ... "

I cannot but agree with Langbein, and, having a lot of other evidence for this, I absolutely confirm his conclusions.

But here is the fact of when and where the famous evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote their new testaments. The famous English writer Charles Dickens wrote a book in the 19th century called “Child’s History of England.” This is translated into Russian as “History of England for young (children).” This interesting book was published in the mid-19th century in London. And it tells about English rulers whom young Englishmen should have known well. In this book it is written in black and white that during the coronation of Princess Elizabeth I, the four evangelists and a certain St. Paul were prisoners in England and received freedom under an amnesty.

In 2005, this book was published in Russia. I will give a small fragment from it (chapter XXXI): “...The coronation went off magnificently, and the next day one of the courtiers, according to custom, submitted a petition to Elizabeth for the release of several prisoners and among them four evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as well as Saint Paul, who for some time were forced to speak in such a strange language that the people completely forgot how to understand them. But the queen replied that it was better to first find out from the saints themselves whether they wanted freedom, and then a grandiose public discussion was scheduled in Westminster Abbey - a kind of religious tournament - with the participation of some of the most prominent champions of both faiths (by other faith we mean , most likely Protestant).

The written testimony of Charles Dickens (he wrote this book for his children, and he clearly had no intention of deceiving them), that the evangelists lived in the 16th century, published about 150 years ago in England, cannot be so easily discarded. This automatically follows the irrefutable conclusion that the New Testament of the Bible was written, at the earliest, in the 16th century! And it immediately becomes clear that this so-called Christian religion is based on a big lie! That “good news” – this is how the word “gospel” is translated from Greek – is nothing more than cynical fiction, and there is nothing good in them.

But that's not all. The description of the construction of the walls of Jerusalem, given in the book of Nehemiah, in all respects coincides with the description of the construction of the Moscow Kremlin (according to Nosovsky and Fomenko), which was carried out... also in the 16th century. What happens then is that not only the New Testament, but also the Old Testament, i.e. The entire Bible was written in recent times - in the 16th century!

The facts I have given will certainly be enough for any thinking person to start digging and looking for confirmation himself, to add up his own integrity of understanding of what is happening. But even this will not be enough for false skeptics. No matter how much information you give them, you still won’t convince them of anything! Because in terms of their level of knowledge they are at the level of small children, because mindlessly believing is much easier than knowing! Therefore, you need to speak to children in their children's language.

And if any of the respected readers has more information on this issue, and someone has something to complement and expand on the facts I have collected, I will be grateful if you share your knowledge! These materials will also be useful for a future book, the materials from which were taken to write this article. http://maxpark.com/community/43/content/1830512?digest&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=digest

Not all people can answer the question: what is the Bible, although it is the most famous and widespread book on the planet. For some it is a spiritual landmark, for others it is a story that describes several thousand years of the existence and development of mankind.

This article provides answers to frequently asked questions: who invented the Holy Scripture, how many books are in the Bible, how old it is, where it came from, and at the end there will be a link to the text itself.

What is the Bible

The Bible is a collection of writings compiled by different authors. The Holy Scriptures are written in different literary styles, and interpretation comes from these styles. The purpose of the Bible is to bring the words of the Lord to people.

The main topics are:

creation of the world and man;
the fall and expulsion of people from paradise;
life and faith of the ancient Jewish peoples;
the coming of the Messiah to earth;
life and suffering of the Son of God Jesus Christ.

Who wrote the Bible

The Word of God was written by different people and at different times. Its creation was carried out by holy people close to God - apostles and prophets.

Through their hands and minds, the Holy Spirit brought the truth and righteousness of God to people.

How many books are in the Bible

The Holy Scriptures of the Russian Orthodox Church include 77 books. The Old Testament is based on 39 canonical writings and 11 non-canonical ones.

The Word of God, written after the Nativity of Christ, contains 27 sacred books.

What language is the Bible written in?

The first chapters were written in the language of the ancient Jews - Hebrew. The texts compiled during the life of Jesus Christ were written in Aramaic.

For the next few centuries, the Word of God was written in Greek. Seventy interpreters were involved in the translation into Greek from Aramaic. Servants of the Orthodox Church use texts translated by interpreters.

The first Slavic Holy Scripture was translated from Greek and is the first book to appear in Rus'. The translation of the sacred meetings was entrusted to the brothers Cyril and Methodius.

During the reign of Alexander I, biblical texts were translated from Slavic into Russian. Then the Synodal translation appeared, which is also popular in the modern Russian Church.

Why is this the Holy Book of Christians

The Bible is not just a holy book. This is a handwritten source of human spirituality. From the pages of Scripture people draw wisdom sent by God. The Word of God is a guide for Christians in their worldly life.

Through Biblical texts the Lord communicates with people. Helps you find answers to the most difficult questions. The books of the Holy Scriptures reveal the meaning of existence, the secrets of the origin of the world and the definition of man’s place in this world.

By reading the Word of God, a person comes to know himself and his actions. Becomes closer to God.

Gospel and Bible - what's the difference

The Holy Scriptures are a collection of books divided into the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament describes the time from the creation of the world until the coming of Jesus Christ.

The Gospel is the part that makes up the Bible texts. Included in the New Testament portion of Scripture. In the Gospel, the description begins from the birth of the Savior to the Revelation, which he gave to His Apostles.

The Gospel consists of several works written by different authors and tells the story of the life of Jesus Christ and His deeds.

What parts does the Bible consist of?

Biblical texts are divided into canonical and non-canonical parts. Non-canonical ones include those that appeared after the creation of the New Testament.

The structure of the canonical part of Scripture includes:

legislative: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Numbers and Leviticus;
historical content: those that describe the events of holy history;
poetic content: Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Job;
prophetic: writings of great and minor prophets.

Non-canonical texts are also divided into prophetic, historical, poetic and legislative.

Orthodox Bible in Russian - text of the Old and New Testaments

Reading Biblical texts begins with the desire to know God's Word. The clergy advise the laity to begin reading from the pages of the New Testament. After reading the New Testament books, a person will be able to understand the essence of the events described in the Old Testament.

To understand the meaning of what is written, you need to have at hand works that provide a decoding of the Holy Scriptures. An experienced priest or confessor can answer any questions you may have.

The Word of God can provide answers to many questions. Studying Bible texts is an important part of the life of every Christian. Through them, people come to know the grace of the Lord, become better people and move spiritually closer to God.

Who wrote the Bible? Where did she come from?

Priest Afanasy Gumerov, resident of the Sretensky Monastery, answers:

The Bible consists of the sacred books of the Old and New Testaments. These texts were written by inspired writers at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. They contain Divine revelations about God, the world and our salvation. The authors of biblical texts were holy people - prophets and apostles. Through them, God gradually (as humanity matured spiritually) revealed truths. The greatest of them is about the Savior of the world Jesus Christ. He is the spiritual heart of the Bible. His incarnation, death on the cross for our sins and Resurrection are the main events of all human history. The Old Testament books contain prophecies about this, and the Holy Gospel and other New Testament texts tell about their fulfillment.

The books of the Old Testament as canonical sacred texts were collected into a single corpus in the middle of the 5th century. BC St. righteous men: Ezra, Nehemiah, Malachi and others. The canon of the New Testament holy books was finally determined by the Church in the 4th century.

The Bible is given to all mankind. Reading it must begin with the Gospel, and then turn to the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. Only after understanding the New Testament books should one proceed to the Old Testament books. Then the meaning of prophecies, types and symbols will be clear. In order to perceive the Word of God undistorted, it is useful to turn to the interpretations of the holy fathers or researchers based on their heritage.