How did God "speak through the prophets"?

Question

Were the prophets infallible, sinless, superhumans just like Jesus Christ? How else can they produce the infallible word of God?

Wouldn't that mean that there was more than one perfect human?

Or were the pages of the Bible just dropped out of the sky and marked with the names of people?

Answer 1

God was a master ventriloquist back in his younger days.

Answer 2

God inspired the Bible through forty writers.
Inspiration doesn't mean the biblical writer just felt enthusisatic, like the composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Nor does it mean the writings are necessarily inspiring to read, like an uplifting poem. The biblical Greek workd for inspiration litterally means "God-breathed." Because Scripture is breathed out by God - because it originates from Him - it is true and inerrant.
Biblical inspiration may be difined as God's superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities - and even their writing styles - they composed and recorded without error His revelation to humankind in the words of the original autographs. In other words, the original documents of the their own personalities and literary talents, wrote under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the result being a perfect and errorless recording of the exact message God desired to give to man.
Hence, the writers of Scripture were not mere writing machines. God did not use them like keys on a typewriter to mechanicallly reproduce His message. Nor did He dictate the words, page by page. The biblical evidence makes it clear that each writer had a style of his own. (Isaiah ahd a powerful literary style; Jeremiah had a mournful tone; Luke's style had medical evertones; and John was very simple in his approach.) The Holy Spirit infallibly worked through each of these writers, through their individual styles, to inerrantly communicate His message to humankind.

Answer 3

Prophets are spiritually sensitive, much the same way a psychic is sensitive to the spirit realm.
Prophets receive their revelation in numerous ways; they can hear both audible & inaudible voices, they can see into the spirit realm; they can simply know inside their heart; they may have dreams, or have angelic delivery, such as the case with Mary & the angel Gabriel.

Answer 4

The prophets were human and not at all sinless (); but they did speak for God.

(1) All authentic prophets were conscious that they were personally called by God to deliver His messages and that they were authorized to speak for Him. In a famous example – that of Isaiah’s – the prophet described his call in considerable detail and responded to God with great willingness (Is. 6: 1ff). Ezekiel, in his priestly manner, reports the day, month and year of his divine commission (Ezek. 1 – 2). The prophets’ description or affirmation of their call to the prophetic office serves to authenticate them as true prophets of Yahweh in contrast to the false prophets of their day who claimed to be prophets but were not.

(2) The prophetic ministry is done only through the empowerment of the Spirit of God. Thus, we read of the Spirit “entering into” or “falling upon” or “coming to” prophets and speaking to them and through them (Num. 11: 25-26; Ezek. 2: 1 – 3; etc.)

(3) The prophet’s message is not his own but God’s. This code is made explicit in Deuteronomy 18: 18 when God told Moses:

"I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak all that I command him"

Even the mad prophet Balaam may not speak his own words but must, whether he likes it or not, speak only those words which God puts in his mouth. Thus he says to a desperate Balak: “Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak” (Num. 22: 38; NKJ).

The precise way a prophet receives a message from God will always remain a bit of a mystery to us, for Scripture does not describe the process in any great detail. From various passages, however, we learn that God communicated to the prophets in a variety of ways which include (a) Visions (1 Sam. 3: 1, 15; 2 Sam. 7: 17; Is. 1: 1; 6: 1-3; Ezek. 11: 24; Dan. 8: 1-2; etc.); (b) Dreams (cf. Num. 12: 6; Joel 2: 28); (c) Direct Verbal Communication wherein God simply put His words in the mouth of the prophet (Is. 51: 16; Jer. 1: 9; etc.). This last appears to be the most common way the prophets received their messages from the Lord. In over a hundred occasions, the Old Testament simply states that “the word of the Lord came to _______,” and leaves it like that (1 Sam. 15: 10; 2 Sam. 7: 4; 24: 11; Is. 38: 4; Ezek. 1: 3; Jonah 1: 1; etc.).

Some of the prophets describe their “call” experience into the prophetic office and these give us a little more insight into the method(s) of a prophet’s reception of the word of God. For example, both the prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel describe their visions of God at the time of their call into their respective ministries (Is. 6; Ezek. 1-3). Ezekiel explicitly tells of how the Spirit of God came upon him. From this passage and from several others (1 Sam. 10: 6, 10: Neh. 9: 30; Zech. 7: 12; Num. 11: 24 – 29), we are made to understand the special agent of revelation to the prophets is the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit. It was through the work of the Spirit in the hearts and minds of the prophets that visions, dreams and messages from God were received and understood. The truths revealed were expressed in terms of the language, culture and context of the prophet’s own day, ready for proclamation to God’s people.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

god actually spoke to the prophets in dreams, direct words, through angelic vistors and to answer the other part of your question there was not but one perfect human and that was Jesus Christ in whom there was no sin

Answer 6

through the Angel

Answer 7

try to live like a prophit . certainly god will speack to you .