Where We Got The Bible

A good friend recently asked me this question: Who made the Bible?  So, rather than answer his question, I'm only going to add to his confusion.  Here are some other questions that I have often wondered:

Where did we get the Bible?
Is the Bible one book?
Is the Bible many books?
Who is the target audience of the Bible?
Are all books of the Bible addressed to the same audience?
Are all books of the Bible written in the same style?
Are all books of the Bible factual?
Are all books of the Bible true?
Do the books of the Bible try to communicate the same idea in the same way?
Do the books of the Bible try to communicate the same idea in different ways?
Do the books of the Bible try to communicate different ideas in the same way?
Do the books of the Bible try to communicate different ideas in different ways?
What relationship does each of the different books of the Bible have to one another?
Are some books in the Bible more important than others?
Are the different books of the Bible of equal importance?
Were the books of the Bible written at the same time?
Were the books of the Bible written at different times?
Does time have an effect on the Bible?
Do we have to think as authors thought in their time period to understand the Bible?
Do we misunderstand the Bible if we allow modern ideas to influence how we read it?
Is there one author of the Bible?
Is God the author of the Bible?
Are the authors of the Bible gods?
Are the authors of the Bible really just pen names for God?
Were the authors of the Bible real?
What did the authors of the Bible believe about the Bible?
Did the authors of the Bible know that what they had written would be part of the Bible?
What faith did the authors of the Bible profess?
Is that faith true?
Does the faith of the authors have a relationship to reason they wrote the books of the Bible?
Did the authors of the Bible sin?
Did the sin of the authors have an effect on what they had written?
Did the authors of the Bible believe what they wrote to be true?
Is everything that the authors of the Bible ever said true?
Did the authors of the Bible believe what they wrote to be inspired by God?
Did God inspire the authors of the Bible to write any other books that are not in the Bible?
Did the authors of the Bible write any other books?
Did the authors of the Bible accept anything other than the Bible as true?
Why are there not more writings being added to the Bible?
Is the Bible complete?
Are the books of the Bible the only books that are true?
Who assembled the Bible?
Why did they assemble the Bible?
How did they assemble the Bible?
Can we trust those that assembled it?
By what authority did those that assembled the Bible assemble it?
Can we trust in the authority of those that assembled the Bible?
Did those that assembled the Bible make other authoritative decisions?
Are those authoritative decisions to be trusted as the decision about the assembling of the Bible?
What faith did those that assembled the Bible profess?
Is that faith true?
Is there a relationship between that faith and the authority of those that assembled the Bible?
How do we interpret the Bible?
Are there many ways to interpret the Bible?
Are all interpretations of the Bible the same?
Are all interpretations of the Bible true?
Is there someone or something that has the true interpretation of the Bible?

Are these questions important?

Several years ago, a mentor of mine was gracious enough to give me a copy of a small book.  That book is titled "Where We Got the Bible."  The author of that book is Henry G. Graham.  That book tries to answer many of the questions I have just asked.  I can't promise that if you read that book you will agree with the author's claims.  I can't promise that the author is correct because I am not a historian, I am not able to recognize everything that is true and I do not know everything that is true.  I can't promise that if you read that book you won't be offended.  However, I do find the author's claims very convincing and it is a book that I recommend you read.

There are several ways that you could get this book. I'm going to list the ways that are legal and the ways that I recommend:
1. Borrow my copy.
2. Borrow someone else's copy.
3. Borrow it from a local library.
4. If your local library does not have it, the librarians at that library, I'm sure, would be happy to do an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for you.  This would allow you to borrow the book from another library that has it without having to travel to that library
5. Travel to another library that does have it and borrow it from them.
6. Buy it from a bookstore.
7. Buy it online from a place such as this: https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/122/keywords/bible/

pax tecum