Who Wrote the Bible?

• All Scripture is Given by Inspiration of God - 2 Tim 3:16 declares: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God”. The Old English word “inspiration” literally means “God-breathed”. It comes from a Greek word which is made up of two words: “theos”, meaning “God” (from which we get our English word “theology”), and “pneustos”, which comes from a word that means “to blow”. God “breathed”, or “blew”, out His Word, by using believers that he had chosen to pen every word He gave to
  the human race. Different books of the Bible were written by different prophets like: Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, etc.; Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible; David wrote many of the Psalms; Solomon wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes; the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Paul wrote much of the New Testament following the Gospels and so on. These men were instruments in the hands of God. God used them as a pen, like we would use a pen and we would write down our note, well, that's how God used these men and sometimes they didn't even know what they were saying, they didn't know what they were writing down. They had no real understanding sometimes. Like Daniel, was given visions and he had no clue what they meant. He was troubled by the visions he had received because he had no real understanding of what God was saying to him.

2 Tim 3:16 “All scripture [note the singular not plural] is given by inspiration of God [or God-breathed], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

Dan 12:8-9 “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.”

2 Pet 3:15-16 “…even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest [twist], as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”

• Holy Men of God Spake as they were Moved by the Holy Ghost - We learn from 2 Pet 1:21 that the Bible was written as “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [Spirit]”.  “Holy men of God” [they are Holy only because they were saved and granted the Christs robe of Righteousness], wrote the scriptures under God's inspiration, and we would never want to forget that. Who wrote the book of Jeremiah? Baruch was the scribe. Baruch is the one who recorded “the word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch”. So Baruch is not the author of the Book of Jeremiah. What if I asked you, who wrote the epistle of Romans? what would you say? Well, Apostle Paul wrote Romans. Did he? Did he? Tertius, wrote this epistle: “I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord” (Rom 16:22). As Paul dictated it to Tertius, Tertius was the actual person who wrote it down. Do we say Tertius wrote the book of Romans? No, because we give no credit to the scribe... We give no credit to the one who is being dictated to... but it's the one whose mind it comes from. He is the author... Paul wrote the epistle of Romans, not Tertius... Well, no. Paul didn't write the epistle of Romans. Did he? He was dictated to. He was not the author of the book... but God himself is the author and we always have to keep that in our minds. God is the author. It is His Book. It is His Word. It comes forth from the mouth of God. Once again we are reminded of how God wrote the Bible – it sets forth His Words that came out of His “mouth”. It is perfect and complete, and He has preserved it for thousands of years. It is the only place where we can find absolute truth and God’s will for us and for this world.

Jer 36:1-4 “And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 4Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.”

2 Pet 1:20-21 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”