God and the Bible

    One day i was talking to a friend about Paul Harvey's "If i were the devil" speech. As we were talking she mentions that someone had asked her this question the other day; "If God wrote the Bible, wouldn't He give everyone a copy?" Now i personally have never been asked this question. To me it sounds a bit smug, like a trick question. Now, I have no clue if this person was serious or not, but it prompted me to write this; God and the Bible.

    Let me make this clear, God didn't literally, phyisicaly write the bible Himself, it's God inspired or "God-breathed". (2 Tim 3:16) "All scripture is inspired by God", notice the word inspired. God used people, like you and me, to write the bible using their own voice, style, and perspective. "The Bible is not divine dictation. The writers were not in some kind of trance..." (1312). They were inpired by God (Yes I am stressing this point...) to write their book of the bible. Now some of you may be getting clever and saying, 'but it was written by people', people. So it's wrong because people aren't perfect. No, sorry it doesn't work like that. Remeber the bible is God inspired, not people inspired. God is never wrong, it's just not in his nature. (If you would like to argue this leave a comment and I'll get to it eventually.)

    Part two of plan one, God gave us freewill. Genesis 2, god created man/woman (Adam/Eve) and places them in the Garden of Eden. He gives them one rule; don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. One simple rule. Now in Genesis 3, sneaky little Satan, desgised as a snake,  comes along and convinces them that the tree is good and okay to eat. Basically he's really good at re-wording sentences. Anyway, this leads to The Fall. See God had given Adam and Eve the freewill to do/eat anything in the garden (minus the tree rule..), but in this case they abused it.

    Now back to that question; "If God wrote the Bible, wouldn't He give everyone a copy?". My answer is no. Why? Back to Genesis 2. God gave us freewill. Simple. Life without freewill isn't much life at all and God wisely gave it to us. Now how you use that freewill is up to you. God is not going to force us to believe in Him, but He'd like you too. We have to make the decision ourself. The reall question is, "Where do you stand?"

Source:
Apologetics Study bible for Students; HCBS Version