How The Bible Came To Be Part 2

Through the ages, God has always desired to teach His children about the principles and ideals we need in order to overcome our fallen nature. As such he has sent prophets, noble men who had become sufficiently humble to be able to come into God's presence, to teach the people.

The words of these prophets was written down, sometimes in their own hand and words, other times by scribes. Sometimes the events became oral tradition and were not written down till a later time. As a result, you find different writing styles consistent with the human authors. This has a times been used to try to discredit the Bible, critics saying that this proves that man, not God, wrote the Bible.   That view does not hold up to real scrutiny however, and shows that both the critics who make such statement are ignorant, as are those who believe such statements. As a proof of point, the KJV of the Bible has a Shakespearean poetry to it, consistent with the English writers who translated it. This does not detract from its message and serves to neither prove nor disprove its origin. 

The next thing to consider is that the Bible did not exist in the time it was written. Rather what did exist was separate records written by various authors. Each text has a distinct signature writing style consistent with the author.  Also the medium that was written upon dictates writing style as well.  These texts were recorded either as scrolls or as codex (books). Almost all ancient Hebrew texts were recorded as scrolls, the later texts that became the New Testament were usually codex. My reason for making this distinction, is that the writing medium does dramatically affect the writing style. My main point is that these works regardless of author or style contain God's word to us, but they are written and recorded by men. 

These texts were not collected into a larger Bible until a much later time. Scholars would try to collect as many as they could and maintain libraries of texts which they would then read and study. Then at later dates, scholars and religious leaders decided it would be advantageous and unifying to their religion if many of these texts could be collected together into a single volume. Even at that, there are multiple versions of the Bible depending on which culture, and which works they decided to include.