the Bible before Jesus

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

- 2 Peter 1:20-21

 

A good friend asked me to write on this topic, so here we go!
Was there a Bible before Jesus? 
Yes, there was the Old Testament, some of which was written more than a thousand years before Jesus was born.
In fact, the complete Old Testament was finished long before Jesus lived.
The Old Testament was written by the Jewish people, including the prophets, kings and  some anonymous people, and it tells of the history of God’s people, their trials and joys, living and dying, the turning points in Israel’s history from the Exodus from Egypt, to entering the Promised Land, the monarchy, the fall of Jerusalem, the exile in Babylon, the restoration of the Israelite people.
The Old Testament gives us the law as it was first known to man, and prophecies of the coming King who would save all of God’s people.

So yes, there was a Bible before Jesus.

The New Testament was written after Jesus died and was resurrected.
It is the divine word of God, 27 books written in Greek by nine authors inspired by the Holy Spirit, authors who had direct contact with Jesus or His apostles.

Dr. Michael A. Milton, the President of Faith For Living wrote about the Bible: It is the Holy Bible: a collection of sixty-six books composed and compiled over 2,000 years by forty authors on three continents. Despite the impressive diversity of authors, genre—from history to poetry, from prophecy to personal accounts—and languages, the Bible displays an irrefutable unity of purpose, undivided harmony of thought, an unfolding narrative that is both unified and progressive. The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, projects universal truth that remains applicable to people around the world. 

It is still applicable.
It is still relevant. 
It is and always was the word of God. 

 

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