Who Wrote the Bible?
The reason the Bible is called a ‘Holy Book’ or the ‘Word of God’ is because God is the author of the Bible.
This doesn’t mean God sat down at a desk and wrote the words Himself. God couldn’t do that because the Bible teaches us that God is a Spirit. God does not have a physical body, but He does live inside human beings, which is why your physical body is called the Temple of God — the place where God resides.
“Don’t you know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
God used men called prophets to write down His words. These were special men that God chose — men that were interested in truth, which is the only way a person can worship God.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
God knew these men could be trusted to deliver His message to the human race without altering it. This is the basis of someone being a true prophet of God: this person must speak or teach God’s Word (the Bible) the way God intended, no matter what it costs them or how unpopular it makes them!
Unfortunately, false prophets have been around for thousands of years. Many of the teachings of these false prophets have survived over the centuries and are the basis of mainstream religious beliefs today. Jesus explained it best:
“Enter in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many people go in there: because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few people find it.”
Simple arithmetic tells us that many church-going people may be going the wrong way!
-Jo
Bible passages: 1 Corinthians 3:16, John 4:24, 2 Peter 1:21, Matthew 7:13-14
Tags: bible truth, christianity, judaism, prophets of God, religion, who wrote the bible
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