Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Is the Bible really inspired by God really? I mean is that what Christians believe that the God of the

universe takes human beings like St Paul or St Matthew and uses them as his instruments to to write what he wants written in

sacred scripture. Is he really the author of the Bible? Is that what Catholics

believe? I mean that kind of sounds like a fairy tale you know like some divine being up there and he's gonna you know whisper into the ear of St Luke.

Hey write this about the enunciation to marry and then Luke writes it down faithfully. Is that what Christians mean when they say the

Bible's inspired by God? I want to clarify this for you. I want you to understand

what the Catholic Church actually teaches about sacred scripture because scripture is sacred

because it is God's word in the words of men. It is truly inspired by God. In fact, that word inspiration comes from the Greek word Theonustos, which means God breathe.

God breathe, the idea is that God breathed his divine word into the human writer who writes down in the human way.

So it's God breathing forth his divine word in human words.

Now I want to be clear though from a Catholic

perspective the Catholics believe that the human writers still are truly

writers. They're true co-authors in Sacred Scripture.

They're the ones who use their own freedom,

they use their own creativity, their own writing style.

They're thinking about their particular audience,

what message they want to write to that audience.

So Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, these

writers are free to write whatever they want to write. But here's the beauty of

what Vatican too taught in the Catikims and Catholic Church teaches is that in the midst of that freedom, what the human

writers wanted to write is exactly what God wanted written and no more.

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