All scripture is INSPIRED of God. 1 Timothy 3:16.
No other book took so long to complete as the Bible. In 1513 B.C.E. Moses began Bible writing. Other sacred writings were added to the inspired Scriptures until sometime after 443 B.C.E. when Nehemiah and Malachi completed their books.
Then there was a gap in Bible writing for almost 500 years, until the apostle Matthew penned his historic account.
Nearly 60 years later John, the last of the apostles, contributed his Gospel and three letters to complete the Bible’s canon.
So, all together, a period of some 1,610 years was involved in producing the Bible.
All the cowriters were Hebrews and, hence, part of that people “entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of God.”—Ro 3:2.
Regarding the part that God’s spirit played in connection with prophecy, the Bible tells us: “No prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.” (2 Pet. 1:20, 21)
This means that Bible prophecy was not the result of the writer’s own analysis and interpretation of current human events and trends and what he thought these would lead to. Rather, the writer had his mind stimulated by God’s spirit and was moved to express the inspired message, generally IN HIS OWN WORDS. So the words were those of the writer, but the message was that of Jehovah God.
2006-12-29 17:38:55
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