Sentences with phrase «many human authors»

And that alone renders any human authored «holy book» invalid.

written by 44 different authors ----- Written by HUMAN authors.

TrueReality, you say «But we do believe it was written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.»

WHICH VERSION of the Bible was written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?

How many outside a rather limited cult do not see the bible as personal opinion, beliefs and prejudices of the human authors.

The Church teaches that God inspires the human authors to write what God wishes to be communicated.

All the while that they are being inspired, the human authors are conscious and awake, acting with their own faculties and gifts, and bringing their own personal style to the writing.

Usually when theologians say that the Bible is a human book, they mean that the Bible has human authors who use human words to discuss human ideas to human readers with human ways of thinking.

As a result, the human authors bring their own culture and understanding to what they write.

Since the Bible is written in human words, the books it contains have many human authors from many eras and cultures.

... as you stated in another post «By inspiring the human authors to write what they did, God made it look like He was the one responsible for the actions of Israel, the destruction of the flood, the murder of the firstborn males of Israel, and the slaughter of Canaanite women and children.

God superintending human authors so that, using their own personalities, they composed and recorded without error his message in the words of the original manuscripts.

That work of the Holy Spirit in guiding human authors to compose and record through their personalities God's selected message without error in the words of the original documents.

In terms of answers about why the bible says what it does sometimes, recognizing that the bible has human authors can provide one straightforward explanation: people can be assholes.

He inspires the human authors to write about Him in these ways so that He can paint the outline, or picture (Greg calls it a shadow) of what Jesus will do for all humanity on the cross.

But it's just that, a book, written by human authors.

Bible is a collection of books written by human authors under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

So a correct reading here depends on seeing things through the eyes of the viewpoint character and author, the human author of Genesis.

Jesus intentionally set His face to the cross so that He might bear the sins of the world, just as God had been intentionally inspiring human authors of Scripture to write what they did so that He might bear the sins of Israel.

The New Testament, written by human authors, is not flawless; yet it stands pre-eminent among all the books ever written.

And yet if the Bible is inspired and inerrant, then we must say that God inspired the human authors to record that He did issue these horrible commands.

The problem is that we are told that Jesus was the Son of God by the human authors of Scripture but with proper human analyses the passages that indicate there is a link have been found to be embellishments.

The Bible was written over a period of about 1,500 years by more than forty different human authors.

God Himself, of course, is always loving and just, but sometimes the human authors of Scripture confused the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ with the actions of Satan in history, and referred to the actions of both as coming from «Yahweh.»

So, it's the «take» of the human author, not God.

@RainerWhiner, the bible was written by many human authors over many years, and has been revised and re-translated many times.

A Servant Jenn — All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, -------- Yes, this is what the human authors that wrote the word suggested.

So what you are avoiding is to say that you can not prove your theory that «God» was created by a human author.

They were not motivated to reproduce the intention of the original human author.

The general view now would be that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Scripture, but did not dictate what they wrote.

Just as studying an artist's painting or an architect's building tells us much about the human author, so too does the study of the natural sciences lead us to understand the Author.

Jews and Christians accepted that God can inspire a deeper meaning than what is intended by the human author.

Many Christians think that divine inspiration means that God dictated His words to human authors and therefore bypassed all human agency.

The Bible, they say, is God's word to humankind, but it's been mediated through human authors and therefore might contain some mistakes.

I can agree with Jeremy's original statement, «I believe that God did lead human authors to write the words of Scripture, though not in a way that would override their unique thought pattern, vocabulary, or idiom.»

A person who would hold this view believes that while God guided and inspired the human authors to accurately record the events of history, these events do not accurately represent the mind or will of God, but rather what the humans at that time thought was the mind and will of God.

I believe that God did lead and human authors to write the words of Scripture, though not in a way that would override their unique thought pattern, vocabulary, or idiom.

But what such approaches fail to recognize, is that the human authors and audience were not the primary author or audience.

So when scholars write about the Old Testament, they primarily seek to understand only what the original human authors and original human audience understood when the text was written.

This «unveiling» is expressed through the Scriptures, the human authors of which are inspired to write what God wishes while employing their own faculties and doing so in the language and culture of their time.

For believers, the Bible's unity demonstrates not only that scores of human authors were heirs of a common tradition, but that each of them was guided through life and inspired to write by the same God.

As opposed to the ways the human authors of biblical scripture deem fit?

Why does God inspire the human authors of Scripture to write about Him in violent ways?

When God inspired the human authors to write that He was commanding them to do the violent actions which they had already set out to do in their hearts, God was not being deceptive.

And since the medieval period, as George Steiner eloquently explains in his recent Grammars of Creation, there has existed an oft - changing relation of human author to Divine Author, of the human creator of literature to the Divine Creator of all.

For now, my only point is that there does not seem to be any passage in the Bible which defends the doctrine of Inspiration as it was taught to me: that the Holy Spirit guided human authors to compose and record through their personalities God's selected message without error in the words of the original documents.

However, a Bible written by human authors in their socio - cultural contexts all too easily becomes a human and cultural book instead of the inerrant Word of God.

But in this essay he has extended critical contextualization by highlighting the fact that the Bible itself was written by human authors in their own particular local cultures.

Just as the nature of Christ as God and man challenged the full faculties of the faith and reason of Augustine and the Church Fathers, so the nature of Scripture as the Word of God and the word of human authors challenges the full faculties of the faith and reason of evangelical scholars and missionaries today.

In my search for the truth, I oft note that some people seem to worship the human author of «spiritual» statements, by excessive use of their reference thereto.