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God chose broken people to write an unbreakable Word.
30
OT Authors
9
NT Authors
66
Books
1,500+
Years
If you were inventing a religion, would you...
Forged religious texts present idealized heroes. The Roman emperors were depicted as gods. Muhammad in later Islamic tradition becomes sinless and perfect. Greek gods were projections of human glory.
The Bible does the opposite.It systematically records the failures, sins, doubts, and embarrassments of its heroes. This is not what propagandists do. This is what historians do when they're committed to recording what actually happened.
The Argument
The Bible's willingness to embarrass its own heroes is strong evidence of authenticity. No one invents a story where the founder of their religion is a murderer, where their chief apostle is a coward, or where their greatest king is an adulterer. These details exist because they happened.
The Objection
“The Bible was written by men, not God. How can you trust a book written by fallible humans?”
2 Timothy 3:16
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God (theopneustos — God-breathed)...”
2 Peter 1:20-21
“...holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
The Bible was not dictated like the Quran supposedly was. God used the personalities, vocabularies, experiences, and writing styles of human authors while ensuring the result was exactly what He wanted.
When you receive a letter, you don't reject it because “it was written by a pen.” The pen is the instrument; the author is the source. The human authors were God's instruments — but the message originated with Him.
The fact that God used 40 different authors over 1,500 years in three languages across three continents — and produced one unified message about one Savior — is itself evidence of supernatural authorship. No human conspiracy could maintain such coherence.
Human authorship ≠ human origin. God can use human instruments to communicate divine truth.
The brokenness of the authors strengthens the case. God chose murderers, adulterers, cowards, and doubters — showing grace transforms anyone.
The criterion of embarrassment. No propagandist would invent the failures recorded in Scripture.
Unity from diversity. 40 authors, 1,500 years, one message — beyond human coordination.