2007-03-13 05:53:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was experimenting and trying to find his voice as a writer?
2007-03-13 05:57:23 · answer #1 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some of it is. Read the Ten Commandments. However, most of the text is the Word of God in the sense that God inspired the writers to write whar He wanted written. If an executive dictates a letter to the office secretary, is the letter from the secretary? Or from the executive? The secretary's word on a subject? Ot the executive's word?
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2007-03-13 13:02:12 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If the bible was written in 1st person then alot of people wouldn't believe in God and he wouldn't have any examples for us to live by. God wants us to see that he gives power not man.
2007-03-13 12:57:28 · answer #3 · answered by *ViRtUoUs WoMaN* 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sho,
That's very easy. In essence, the Old Testament is a compilation of the history of God's dealings with his then-chosen people ... for better or worse. Do historians ever write in the first person? What you have for instance is Moses explaining how God gave the Israelites the mosaic law and how they originally received it and then went against it and God's reaction to that. So for instance you'd have Moses saying the Israelites did this thing or that thing and then God went on to tell the Israelites thus and such?
Does that help?
2007-03-13 13:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although God inspired the writing of the Bible, much of it he had written from the viewpoint of the authors, such as the Exodus account written down by Moses. He recorded the events through which he lived; God did not dictate to him what words to use.
2007-03-13 12:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is the Word of God according to 2 Timothy 3:16 (NASB) - "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;" The Greek term underlying the word “inspired” (theopneustos) means “God-breathed.” The Bible is God’s Word—not man’s. Three verses later (in 2 Timothy 4:2), Paul declared, “Therefore...preach the word.”
“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). The message of the biblical writers was not their own message, but the message of the will of God. Since the Bible is God’s inspired book, it is without error and absolutely trustworthy. Any apparent contradictions come from our misunderstanding, not from actual problems within the Bible itself, “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints” (1 Corinthians 14:33).
2007-03-13 13:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by SusanB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 Timothy 3:16 says that the bible was inspired by God, not written by God. He used humans to pen the words, but his holy spirit did the "dictation". It's not a autobiography, it is written for humans and by humans - a book of stories of servants who were obedient and received blessings and those who were disobedient and received a malediction.
2007-03-13 13:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by Roxie J Squared 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not the word of GOD.
The Bible contains the word of GOD.
There are many words in the Bible that are not comes from GOD.
Examples:
word of the devil
Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Genesis 3:5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
word of an animal
2Peter 2:16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb *** spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
2007-03-13 13:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Dear Friend,
The Scriptures tell us that
2 Timothy 3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The writers were bourne along by Holy Spirit as they wrote the words given them by God.
God Bless
2007-03-13 12:57:55 · answer #9 · answered by ianptitchener 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weird. It's almost like other people received the message and wrote it down in third person. I'll have to spend some time reconciling that one....
2007-03-13 12:59:34 · answer #10 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We all learn by example and all have free will to choose between right from wrong starting from a young age do we not? We are His design so it makes sense He would know that.
2007-03-13 13:03:05 · answer #11 · answered by GoodQuestion 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋