What Does it Mean That God Inspired the Bible?
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21
What does it mean that God Inspired the Bible?
The God of this universe wrote a book. The Bible is one big book made up of many smaller books written by numerous people over many years.
In the Bible, God reveals who he is through the words of human authors. But these authors were not writing on their own. God helped them in a special way by supernaturally influencing their writing. Authors wrote under the direction of the Holy Spirit while simultaneously writing in their own words and styles using their own intellect and skills. The Holy Spirit moved in and through them to declare God’s message exactly how God wanted it revealed.
God directed and breathed out every word in the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. For God to inspire these words means they ultimately come from him. God used mortal and fallible men to write what is infallible and eternal.
Scripture then is from both God and man. Yet, when we read the Bible, we are ultimately hearing God speak.
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