Was the Bible Written by God or Humans?
The belief that the Bible is the Word of God is foundational to our lives as Christians. When the Scripture says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps. 119:105), we assume that in the Scriptures we have truthful and reliable direction from God. But just how secure is that assumption? In Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code, the brilliant historian Sir Leigh Teabing declares, The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven.… The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book. Although this statement is spoken by a fictional character in a novel, it accurately depicts what some people think about the Bible. In fact, in the introduction to this book, Dan Brown claims: “All descriptions of … documents … in this