“What If It Was Just Men Who Wrote The Bible?”

Sunday, June 04, 2017

While it is arguably the most influential book ever written, the question does linger in many people’s minds: “What if someday, it turns out that the Bible was just put together by a bunch of men somewhere and not by God at all?” Asking this question does not reveal that one is derelict in their spiritual duties or wayward in their faith—it reveals that one is thinking and willing to reason with God (cf. Isa. 1:18).

For the believer, there is a justifiable uneasiness in the thought that the Bible might not be from God. After all, the Bible claims to be both divinely inspired (spoken by God himself) and inerrant (with no flaws or failures). If either of these claims proves false, the credibility of the whole thing is destroyed, and “we are of all people most to be pitied.”

However, there is ample evidence to support belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible. Firstly, the Bible is a unique collection. It was written by approximately forty authors, from three different continents, over a span of 1500 years, and yet it contains a thematic unity “that defies naturalistic explanations.” (Gregory Boyd)  Secondly, the Bible’s pages are lined with foretold events which actually proved true. From the prophecies of the Messiah and their miraculously accurate fulfillments to the predictions of progressive world empires which all proved true. Thirdly, the Bible’s historic accuracy continues to stand. Again and again, archaeological evidence corroborates the truth of the Bible’s history, giving credit to the fact that it was not just made up by men, but it is actual truth recorded by someone supremely interested in truth (“let God be true though every one were a liar” Rom. 3:4).

Christians can rest surely that the Bible is in fact the word of God—the only message of salvation in the only one who saves.

- Dan Lankford, minister

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