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Do You Know How The Bible Was Written?
Do you like history? Just about anything you can think of has some kind of a history, whether it was the birth of a nation or the invention of the airplane or the development of the ballpoint pen. Likewise, the Bible has a history. Do you know how the Bible was written?
To discover how the Bible was written, look at 2 Peter 1:21. That verse says, “. . . men spoke from God while being carried along by the Holy Spirit.” How was the Bible written? It was written by men.
But how those men came to write the Bible is an interesting piece of history. Picture a sailboat out on a lake on a calm day. Because there is no wind, the boat is just sitting there, going no where. But then a wind comes up and fills the boat’s sail. Then the sailboat begins to move across the water, because the wind is driving it along. This is a good example of how men came to write the Bible. The men were like that sailboat. By themselves they were not writing the verses of the Bible. They were writing nothing. But then the Holy Spirit came upon them. The Holy Spirit carried them along and moved them to write the verses of the Bible.
Everything the men wrote in the Bible was inspired by God the Holy Spirit. The men did the writing, but the Holy Spirit breathed into them what they should write. As 2 Timothy 3:16 states, “All Scripture is inspired by God.” Even the very words of the original Hebrew and Greek texts were inspired by the Holy Spirit and breathed into the men, as the apostle Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 2:13, “. . . which things we also are speaking, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual truths with spiritual words.” The Holy Spirit’s giving the writers the very words they wrote is called Verbal Inspiration.
As a further piece of historical information, the writers of the Old Testament were called prophets. The writers of the New Testament were called apostles and evangelists. The Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language, the New Testament in the Greek language. In all, God the Holy Spirit used about 40 men to write the Bible over about 1,500 years, beginning with Moses and ending with the apostle John. And that was how the Bible was written.
To discover how the Bible was written, look at 2 Peter 1:21. That verse says, “. . . men spoke from God while being carried along by the Holy Spirit.” How was the Bible written? It was written by men.
But how those men came to write the Bible is an interesting piece of history. Picture a sailboat out on a lake on a calm day. Because there is no wind, the boat is just sitting there, going no where. But then a wind comes up and fills the boat’s sail. Then the sailboat begins to move across the water, because the wind is driving it along. This is a good example of how men came to write the Bible. The men were like that sailboat. By themselves they were not writing the verses of the Bible. They were writing nothing. But then the Holy Spirit came upon them. The Holy Spirit carried them along and moved them to write the verses of the Bible.
Everything the men wrote in the Bible was inspired by God the Holy Spirit. The men did the writing, but the Holy Spirit breathed into them what they should write. As 2 Timothy 3:16 states, “All Scripture is inspired by God.” Even the very words of the original Hebrew and Greek texts were inspired by the Holy Spirit and breathed into the men, as the apostle Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 2:13, “. . . which things we also are speaking, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual truths with spiritual words.” The Holy Spirit’s giving the writers the very words they wrote is called Verbal Inspiration.
As a further piece of historical information, the writers of the Old Testament were called prophets. The writers of the New Testament were called apostles and evangelists. The Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language, the New Testament in the Greek language. In all, God the Holy Spirit used about 40 men to write the Bible over about 1,500 years, beginning with Moses and ending with the apostle John. And that was how the Bible was written.
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