Let’s lay out one precept: we’re about discovering the truth, not defending traditional notions. In a companion series we will explore how we got the “Holy Bible,” but for now we’ll begin with the authors. So with this post we begin a series to help readers appreciate the Bible as an accurate, historical, and trustworthy document. It’s not essential that we know the names of the human authors (otherwise they would have laid out their identities in the text with certainty), but it is essential that we know that the Scripture is trustworthy.
Not so much in terms of their actual identities, but because many attacks against Christianity are targeted at disproving the reliability of human authorship. What kind of defense can those of us who believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God offer regarding the trustworthiness of the authors of the Bible? The Bible is God’s special revelation to mankind, delivered through the divine inspiration of human authors. So who were the human authors? God…right? While that may be a profound and direct answer, it’s also overly simplistic.
