Now it is true that virtually all churches will say that God is the author of the Bible and yet he used mankind to pen the Bible and yet that would be a very accurate statement.
But here in lies the error of a great many of the churches and or teachers in that they look at 2Pt. 1:21 and deduce the idea that somehow God moved or perhaps the writers of the Bible were inspired some how to write the Bible. Many say that Luke wrote the book of Luke because it was his style or even with Moses because we know that he wrote the 1st five books of the Bible and many others will say Paul did or did not write because it goes in direct opposition of how the rest of the Bible is laid out.
The interesting part is when we look at 2Pt. 1:21 real closely we see the phrase not by the will of man, that is to say that in no manner did mankind have any inspiration or were moved in a form from God to write the Bible, that would be a impossibility. We have examples of this idea that it was God who gave the words to the writers to put in a book / scroll all of the words that God wanted for us to have.
Ex. 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Jer. 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Rev. 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
There is also one other thought on this in that if mankind did use their words to write the Bible or even parts it could not and would not hold any validity to that of being true, we would have all kinds of contradictions and what not. So we know that the Bible is 100% the word of God and not 99.9% of God and .1% of mankind.
But here in lies the error of a great many of the churches and or teachers in that they look at 2Pt. 1:21 and deduce the idea that somehow God moved or perhaps the writers of the Bible were inspired some how to write the Bible. Many say that Luke wrote the book of Luke because it was his style or even with Moses because we know that he wrote the 1st five books of the Bible and many others will say Paul did or did not write because it goes in direct opposition of how the rest of the Bible is laid out.
The interesting part is when we look at 2Pt. 1:21 real closely we see the phrase not by the will of man, that is to say that in no manner did mankind have any inspiration or were moved in a form from God to write the Bible, that would be a impossibility. We have examples of this idea that it was God who gave the words to the writers to put in a book / scroll all of the words that God wanted for us to have.
Ex. 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Jer. 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Rev. 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
There is also one other thought on this in that if mankind did use their words to write the Bible or even parts it could not and would not hold any validity to that of being true, we would have all kinds of contradictions and what not. So we know that the Bible is 100% the word of God and not 99.9% of God and .1% of mankind.