The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
the divine causality worked through the human
prophets without destroying their individual
personalities and styles to produce divinely
authoritative and inerrant writings. 101
There are many people who confuse inspired with
inspiring. There are those who say, “Oh, yes, the Bible is
inspired,” and yet so is John Milton, or Plato, or Socrates,
or Aristotle, or any writer that might touch their fancy.
Yet what they really mean is that many of these writers
are inspiring—and with that I have no quarrel. But to say
that they have been inspired by God to write His infallible
will is an altogether different matter.
Perhaps the situation would be less confusing if the
word inspiration (found in our comprehensive definition
of 2 Timothy 3:16) had been translated differently
from the Greek. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of
God” is an incomplete translation. The Greek word
theopneutos means “God-breathed”—that is, the
Scriptures are “breathed out” by God. It is more expiration
than inspiration. Probably the English translation
should have said “all Scripture is breathed out by
God” and the confusion with “inspiring” would at least
be overcome.
THE BIBLE’S FULFILLED PROPHECIES
What evidence do we have that the Bible is inspired
or God-breathed? First of all, in Deuteronomy 18:22,
God tells us how we may know if a prophet is sent from
Him: “When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD,
if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the
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