Bible Basics

The Bible's Origin

The most influential book in the history of the world is the Bible. In the next few weeks I want to consider some important truths concerning the Bible, the first of which is its origin. The Bible is literally the word of God. It could not have been written by man, for it took some forty different individuals who lived during the course of many centuries to record both the Old and New Testaments. Yet within this volume there are no mistakes and no contradictions. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). God has given us His word of instruction for our lives in the Bible. Some today reject the Bible completely, while others see it as a “good book” but do not accept it as being literally the word of God. Oh, they may accept it as containing certain principles that are divine, but they consider the text itself to have come from the mind of man, not God. But Paul commended the Thessalonians saying, “when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God” (1 Thess. 2:13). While it is true that God employed men to record His word, ultimately the source of the divine document is God Himself.  No other explanation is feasible, as we shall see.

                                                                                                               -- Clark Dugger

Bible Basics