I find it hillarious when an atheist says:
Christians must believe that God not only inspired men to write the Bible, but also that he inspired those who transcribed it and inspired those who chose which books go in it.
I’m so glad that an atheist is able to let us know what we, as Christians, must believe. Especially if you just saw Steve Hay’s a mere week ago point out:
Indeed, for God to inspire every scribe would blur the distinction between special revelation and ordinary providence, divine speech and human speech.This would defeat the purpose of having revelation in the first place, since it would become impossible to demarcate the line between inspired and uninspired speech, to know when one took up where the other left off.
Are we to suppose that if Bertrand Russell were quoting Scripture to disprove Scripture, God would have to inspire Russell’s citation, so that Russell would be divinely inspired every time he quoted the Bible?
What about a paraphrase or summary? Would that also have to be inspired?
Even before the Fall there was a difference between God speaking and Adam speaking, where one ended while the other began.
So why must we believe that God inspired copyists of Scripture, or those who cannonized Scripture? All that God needed to inspire, according to Christian truth, is the original autographs.
But it’s so much easier to refute someone when you make up what they have to believe….
