Who really wrote the Bible?

Humans wrote sections at a time. The early Romans church put them all together and conveniently edited to make make sure men stayed supreme, women were subject to men, and the poor were controlled and subjected, in the name of God. And also, sex.

Which one?

The Jewish Bible (Tanach) was pretty much done before Christ was born. It’s what is called (wrongly) the Old Testament. It was written by scribes, generally in Judea,

The Romans had nothing to do with the Tanach – the New Testament came 400–500 years. later.

I’m guessing your cousin hasn’t read much of it himself, or if he has, he hasn’t been bothered by contradictions, inconsistent stories, and commands to do things we’d shun today, such as putting adulterers to death.

Or handing our your virgin daughters to be raped to protect yourself.

I read somewhere that certain parts were likely written under the influence of psychedelics. That would help revelations make more sense.

The Mormans are still writing their bible (the Book of Mormon)
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What psychedelics do they have in the Middle East?

A bunch of human dudes, who were able to write, and who were able to remember stories and fables that were passed down to them over the years, adding their own storytelling embellishments, and using the cultural ideas from their own time period, and changing some of the old mythology, to fit their needs, at the time.

Prophets.

People wrote the Bible. It was written down many years before and translated into what it is now. Before that, it was only lore passed down by word of mouth until someone wrote it down. It originated in ancient tales told in attempts to explain the unexplainable. “God” was created by man in this way.

And then all the scrolls were combined, then edited and modified and solidified to the government’s advantage by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

J K Rowling

Basic information before leaving earth. BIBLE. Could be from aliens for a guide to joining the galaxy’s political membership.

Different books are believed to be written by different people. They were all separate for a long time until the Council of Nicea (under Roman Emperor Constantine) got together and decided what books they wanted to put into the bible and in what order. The new Testament is a bit easier. Many of the books are named for the person that wrote them or they were written by Paul of Tarsus. That isn’t true of all the books, but of many of them.

The Bible is clearly an extreme case of stealing and reworking ideas from earlier more original religions.

Nobody really knows

The Bible’s primary author is GOD but there are secondary authors, whose personality and ways of expression, shaped how it was written down. Just speaking loosely I would say that God gave them vision and they wrote and the really miraculous thing would be that they wrote no falsehood. Which I find perfectly reasonable.

Naw. They’re just stories passed down orally, until we figured out how to write, then we wrote them down.