nd the Bible, which should have helped you to a correct understanding of the matter
under consideration. Here is the statement:
“The Bible points to God as its author; yet it was written by human hands; and
in the varied style of its different books it presents the characteristics of the several
writers. The truths revealed are all ‘given by inspiration of God’ (2 Timothy 3:16);
yet they are expressed in the words of men. The Infinite One by His Holy Spirit has
shed light into the minds and hearts of His servants. He has given dreams and visions,
symbols and figures; and those to whom the truth was thus revealed, have themselves
embodied the thought in human language.
“The Ten Commandments were spoken by God Himself, and were written by His
own hand. They are of divine, and not human composition. But the Bible, with its
God-given truths expressed in the language of men, presents a union of the divine and
the human. Such a union existed in the nature of Christ, who was the Son of God and
the Son of man. Thus it is true of the Bible, as it was of Christ, that ‘the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14).
“Written in different ages, by men who differed widely in rank and occupation,
and in mental and spiritual endowments, the books of the Bible present a wide
contrast in style, as well as a diversity in the nature of the subjects unfolded. Different
forms of expression are employed by different writers; often the same truth is more
strikingly presented by one than by another. And as several writers present a subject
under varied aspects and relations, there may appear, to the superficial, careless, or
prejudiced reader, to be discrepancy or contradiction, where the thoughtful, reverent
student, with clearer insight, discerns the underlying harmony.
“As presented through different individuals, the truth is brought out in its varied
aspects. One writer is more strongly impressed with one phase of the subject;
he grasps those points that harmonize with his e
