how is god the author of scripture?

Answer 1

For all scripture is God breathed and useful for teaching rebuking correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work 2 Timothy 3:16

Above all you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the willl of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21

Many other internal and external evidences show that God through the Holy Spirit authored or inspired men to write. He did not dictate to them all the time, mostly He inspired their thoughts using their minds and understanding and as they wrote by His forthtelling them they wrote by His power and Spirit the Word of God.

Answer 2

As the Authors wrote,God put it in their minds the things He wanted man to know.That's what is so amazing about the Bible.Here you have 66 books written by many different authors over a 2000 year period,on 3 different continents,in a time when there was no mail service,by guys that (alot of)didn't know each other.AND YET there is NO contradiction of how the describe and write about God and His nature.People will say the"God of the Old Test. is an angry God and the New Test. He's nice." Baloney if you read it ,He's the same .It's the people who were out of control.Anyway that's the short version..we could go on about the 100s of fulfilled prophecies.

Answer 3

God is author in that he is originator. No rational Christian claims that God "wrote" the Bible. Human beings penned it; God was their inspiration.

Have you ever read a biography of a great man or woman? Many authors of biographies never actually meet their subject, but some do. The reason an author writes a biography is usually because the subject person is/was someone who inspired the author. The author wanted to write that person's story so that more people could get to know that person.

The fanatastic thing about the Bible is that not only is it a biography of God written by many different human authors over thousands of years, but it is a living biography in that who ever reads and accepts it can actually personally know the subject of the Bible; the Living God.

Answer 4

First of all the Hebrew Scriptures are inspired by Father Yahweh the Creator of all things.
The Bible on the other hand is a twisted version of what the Hebrew Scriptures say.
You see from the garden until the last apostle was killed by the Christian Church there was a PLAN to bring mankind to be like his Creator.
Part of that PLAN was to allow the religions to rewite the Scriptures to make them say things that are not true.
In this way only those that are truly seeking truth will understand what the Hebrew Scriptures say.
Here is a great place to go and leard about the deception.

http://www.yahweh.com


Obadhawk

Answer 5

All Scripture is God-breathed. God inspired the authors of the bible and gave them the words to say.

Answer 6

He can only be the author of scripture in a removed capacity.

He can not be the author in the sense of one who dictated to another to write the words he spoke because the bible makes note often that what is written in it are words INSPIRED by God, and inspiration is not dictation:

dictation: speech intended for reproduction in writing
Inspiration: arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

So as you can see, simply by the definitions of those words they are clearly not one in the same. Lets use some examples:

'I love that garden, it inspired me to write my fantasy novels.' Or
'His music inspired my #1 song.'
One who is inspired by a garden is not going to write a book about that garden, the way it is laid out., it's species, it's colors, and so fourth
Just as one inspired by another's music is not going rewrite those songs he was inspired by.

Dictation is completely different. If you ask your secretary to take a letter and you speak to her what you wish her to write then you can expect to see a letter written as you spoke it.

So God can only be the author of the scripture in the sense that humans wrote it. Humans are created in his image, and each human has a piece of the divine, a piece of God, within themselves.

Answer 7

Hmmm, I dont believe god or a being was the author, man wrote the scriptures they just say it was god to get people to follow them and what they say.

Answer 8

Torah never claims that it is written by G-d, rather Moses is believed to be the author. Yet, in recent times we have tended to abandon this idea as naive and see the work of many authors and redactors in the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh. If Moses were to be the sole hand behind the Bible, then how could he have written of his own death? Or has HaShem gone in for fortune-telling?

Answer 9

In that he inspired humans to pen down his thoughts. (Hebrews 4:12 and 2 Timothy 3:16)) Take for example when an executive ask his secretary to take down his thoughts for a letter he wants to send someone, it is his thoughts - he is the author not the secretary.

Answer 10

it incredibly is a tricky one, seeing as how even maximum Christians will agree that individuals wrote the Bible. The sticking factor is whether or no longer or no longer they did so thoroughly below the muse of the Holy Spirit or no longer. I say they did no longer by way of fact if God needed that time of administration he would have written the Bible straight away himself or maybe now be updating it like a blog.