What part or lot did man have in the composition of the Bible? None whatever. Its very words are the words of God. �All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.� No part of it was of human origination, �for the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man� (2Pe_1:21).
Did not holy men of God speak �moved by the Holy Spirit�? And how did they then record what the Holy Spirit communicated to them � in words of man�s selecting? Nay verily, �not in the words which man�s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth� (1Co_2:13).
Balaam longed to speak otherwise than he did; but he could not. Caiaphas prophesied �not of himself� (Joh_11:51). Pilate was asked to make a change in the one sentence which God moved him to write, but he declared �What I have written I have written� (Joh_19:22). God acted sovereignly in the writing of the Scriptures as in everything else. The very words were chosen by Him; and did He not sovereignly choose? Did He take counsel with either angels or men as to the words He should select for the communicating of His thoughts? No indeed. |
