Very often the best questions we get are very simple ones, like this one today from Maxine

a long-time listener to APJ.

Pastor John, hello and thank you for this podcast.

Can you explain to me who wrote the Bible?

Well, let's start at the top and work our way down to who held the very quill that moved across

the parchment. At the top is God. When Christians refer to the Bible as the Word of God, they mean that,

and I would say, I mean, I'm one of those people who believe this, take my whole life on it,

I mean that the Creator of the universe, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who upholds the universe by the Word of His power, was guiding and is guiding all things,

according to a great purpose, that God has chosen to reveal Himself to human beings in human

language. He has chosen to speak. Amazing. He brews chapter 1 verses 1 and 2, say, long ago at

many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days,

He has spoken to us by His Son, Jesus Christ. That's simply staggering. God has spoken. The phrase

thus says the Lord occurs over 400 times in the Old Testament, as the writers put forward in their

writings that God has spoken. The phrase God said occurs over 600 times in the Old Testament.

So there's this pervasive claim of the human writers that they are delivering what God once said.

The way the New Testament writers express this claim is to say that the

the human writers of the Bible were, quote, inspired. These writings are God breathed or the people

who wrote them were carried along by the Spirit. For example, the Apostle Paul says in 2 Timothy 316,

all scripture, that is, for him at that time, that was all the Old Testament books of the Bible,

is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction.

And Peter, the Apostle Peter says in 2 Peter 1 verse 20, no prophecy was ever produced by

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