Moses is a hebrew born in egypt and raised in pharaohs house. Rather, gods authorship was accomplished through the process of inspiration, as human writers wrote gods message. The gospel of john was written by one of jesus closest disciples, giving us an eyewitness account of the messiahs life. But the bible is often clear about who penned its contents. The doctrine of the inspiration of scripture essentially teaches that god superintended the human authors of the bible so that their individual styles were preserved but the end result was precisely what god wanted. Thats after he assists in killing 100,000 syrians after they call him a god of the hills. The apostle peter wrote, knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of god spoke as they were moved by the holy spirit 2 peter 1. E stands for elohist, the name given to the authors who referred to god as elohim. How can the bible be written by god yet have human authors. Daniel, peter, paul, jonah, isaiah, solomon and david. Of all the old testament prophets, nobodys like moses dt 34. God is recorded in the bible as doing many things directly. Some parts begin with such phrases as the words of nehemiah, the vision of isaiah, and the word of jehovah that occurred to joel. But as a human being, from infancy, jesus received the holy scriptures as the word of god.
Moses is the prophet who leads israel from slavery in egypt to the edge of the promised land. Read how can the bible be written by god yet have human authors. Of course, for christians, the bible is more than just a human book. These bible writers wrote as they were inspired by the holy spirit see 2 timothy 3. The bible was written by humans who were uniquely inspired by god.
How can the bible be gods word when human beings wrote it. Ehrman heyns lecture series at cubberley auditorium, stanford university campus, wednesday. The doctrine of his nature, fully god and fully man, yet never mixed or confused, let us recognize that as god in the flesh, the lord jesus knew that the triune god wrote the bible. At times god allowed the human writers to use their own words or terminology, but all received divine inspiration from godwho is really the one who wrote the bible.