Actually the Bible came from God.
I don’t think anyone doubts that the scriptures came from God, through His inspiration. The question the other poster was asking was, how did it go from being individual letters and epistles during the first century, and end up in our hands in the twenty first century?
It’s my understanding that God used the men of the Church, which He also gave us, to write those scriptures. God also used men to bring them all together to be of one ‘book’. God used men to preserve them, through the ages, until we, ALL Christians, have at least one in their homes today.
There were other changes made to the word, and we have to wonder if those changes were truly God (name removed by moderator)ired, or man’s attempt to set them in a proper order. There were chapter and verse numbers added, punctuation added and multiple translations in to every language. Many translations are different. How do we know exactly what the correct translation is in that case? Punctuation was dependent on sentence structure according to the time and language used by those that added the punctuation.
If one wonders how punctuation could be an instance of different meanings, let me offer just one example that could change a meaning.
Below is the way we find Luke 23:43 in our Bibles.
**(KJVA)
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
(Douay-Rheims)
Luk 23:43 And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.**
Now let move just one punctuation mark, in each version.
**(KJVA)
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee to day, shalt thou be with me in paradise.
(Douay-Rheims)
Luk 23:43 And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee this day: thou shalt be with me in paradise.**
So, we depend on a man’s sense of sentence structure, according to his language and era, to tell us what was being said. Did Christ tell the thief that day, he would be in heaven, or did He tell him that, that day he would be in heaven?
Some believe we will all be resurrected and then judged, others believe we receive heaven upon our deaths. Which is correct? This point can be a major discussion between theologians.