EPISODE 2 => HOW THE BIBLE WAS
WRITTEN
‘Yet how could the bible be from God when
it was written by men?’ you may ask. True, about 40 men shared in writing the
bible. The men did the actual writing of bible with the exception of the Ten
Commandments, which were written
personally by God on stone tablet by the direct action of his holy spirit.
(Exodus 31:18). However, this does not make what they wrote any less the word
of God. The bible explains: “men spoke
from God as they were born along by the holy spirit,”(2 peter 1:21). Yes,
just as God used his powerful holy spirit to create the heavens, The earth and
all living things, he also used it to direct the writing of the Bible.
This means the bible has only one
author, Jehovah God. He used men to write the information down, much as a businessman
uses a secretary writes the letter. The secretary writes the letter, but the
letter contains the ideas and thought of a businessman. So it is the
businessman letter not the secretary’s, even as the Bible is God’s book not the
book of the men who were used to writes it.
Since God created the mind, he surely didn’t find it
hard to get in touch with minds of his servants to provide them the information
to write. Even today a person can sit in his home and receive messages from
faraway place through the means of a radio or a television set. The voices or
pictures travels over a long distance by the use of physical laws created by
God. It is, therefore, easy to understand that Jehovah, from his place faraway
in heavens, could direct men to write down the information that he wanted the
human family to know.
The result has been a marvelous Book.
Actually, the bible is made up of 66 little books. The Greek word biblia, from which the word “Bible”
comes, means “little books.” These
books, or letters, were over a period of 1600 years, from 1513 B.C.E. to 98
C.E. Yet, because of having just one author, all these bible books are in harmony
with one another. The same theme runs throughout the whole, namely, that
Jehovah God will bring back righteous conditions by his kingdom. The first book,
genesis, tells how a paradise home was lost because of rebellion against God,
and the last book, Revelation, describes how the earth will be made a paradise
again by God’s rule—Genesis 3:19, 23.
Pls, watch out for the final episode.
“Episode 3” titled “IS THE BIBLE REALLY
TRUE?”
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