Who is the Author of the Bible?
Topic 2/30 of 'Beginning the Bible' Series (Written & Audio Blog) that help persons new to Bible or Bible Study to gain their footing on this gift. This series is designed to take you step by step as such each topic builds on the previous one. For the best understanding, it’s highly recommended that you follow along in order from the beginning.
10/1/20252 min read
Who is the Author of the Bible?
There are many authors, over 40 persons who contributed to the writing of the Bible and one over-arching author.
You see God indirectly wrote the Bible and gifted it to us. How? He influenced, inspired and in all orchestrated the Bible to be filled with what we read in it as per 2 Timothy 3:16. This is also likely why the bible is known as the Word of God, because it is a key way although not the only way you communicate with God.
That may be a lot so let’s break it down with an example.
God orchestrated Luke to be in the life of Jesus, if you don't know Jesus we will surely get to Him in the next couple of topics. Luke was also friends with Theophilus. Luke was trying to convince Theophilus to believe in the preaching of Jesus as such he used his skills as a physician such as researching and being approachable to persons to conduct interviews and added his own personal account. This led to a biography of Jesus. Which that and the publishing on scrolls were purportedly funded by Theophilus. Just to properly understand this, God led Theo and Luke to meet, Luke and Jesus to meet, inspired events for us to learn from today, Luke to have the skillset and knowledge to create a biography, Theo to fund the publishing of the biography and moved in the lives of all of them to lead to the book of Luke.
Now, imagine 5 books that you may have read in your life from different authors. And how different they are. Even if it is in the same genre or about the same thing, and published in the same year - its different. Mostly on account of who the author is and their background.
Imagine, God used about 40 persons across i suppose ...2,000 years where they were times of war and times of peace, times of famine and excess, changes in culture and so forth. They had different statuses, backgrounds and skills which reflected on what they wrote and how they wrote. This allows the Bible to capture a rich tapestry of human experience moreover showed divine intervention in each of these cases. Divine intervention that happens today and will happen in the future.
The reason there are so many authors in the bible is because the Bible is a book... of books. It comprises 66 books. Now if you can do the calculation 40 authors and 66 books you would realize in some instances one person wrote multiple books.
God influenced not just the authors, but the many scholars who integrated the scrolls into the Bible ... to be in our hands... today. Should’nt we appreciate this? Shouldn't be even more curious to delve into it?