" Indirect Evidence for the Inspiration of Scripture "

2nd.Peter 1:16-21   "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, but were eyewitnesses of HIS majesty. For HE received from GOD the FATHER honor and glory, when there came such a voice to HIM from the excellent glory, This is MY beloved SON, in WHOM I AM well pleased. And this voice which came from Heaven we heard, when we were with HIM in the Holy mount. We have also a more sure WORD of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but Holy men of GOD spake as they were moved by the HOLY SPIRIT."

     IF men had written the Bible apart from any kind of divine influence, it would have been a very different book indeed. For example, if men had written a biography of JESUS, they surely would have devoted much space to HIS childhood, HIS teen years, and the years of HIS early manhood. Yet the four Gospel writers amazingly pass over this period apart from one incident that took place when CHRIST was twelve years old, and only Luke records this event. It was GOD's all-wise choice to reveal practically nothing of JESUS' formative years and, instead, to record those events of HIS public ministry beginning when HE was about thirty. The greatest amount of space is devoted to CHRIST's final week, climaxing with HIS death, burial and resurrection.

     Consider also Acts 1:13 (pictured), where Luke records the names of the eleven Apostles. If men were to write a history of the early church, then each of the twelve Apostles (Mathias included) would be prominent in the account, with detailed information provided about each Apostle. Yet GOD's ways are not our ways, so in GOD's book of Acts, we are told practically nothing about most of these men. Luke, guided by the HOLY SPIRIT, makes no further mention of nine of these Apostles, except as they are mentioned collectively (as in Acts 6:2; 8:1; etc.). Only Peter, James, and John are named in the rest of Luke's account, and Peter is the prominent person in Acts chapters 1-12 - James and John much less. The LORD knows exactly what should be included in HIS sacred writings. Given the opportunity, we would have written the Bible quite differently. How blessed it is to know that GOD is the ultimate AUTHOR and not fallible men ! GWZ
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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