Questions tagged [inspiration]

How God's part of authorship of Scripture works.

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Why did God use humans to write the Bible?

God is recorded in the Bible as doing many things directly: causing floods, making humans, etc. etc. - but chose to have his word written through people instead of imparting his wisdom directly. It seems like this opens the door for questioning…
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How to understand the the inspired metanarrative of the Judges periodic to late Monarchic Scriptures?

As a Christian I can see the early OT involving God's guidance through sacred etiological myths, setting apart from ANE, and origins. I understand that the time of the judges to post-Davidic kingdoms had their purpose, but I struggle with them. Much…
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