In order to arrive at the correct answer from a number of possibilities, one may falsify the choices which are erroneous in order to ascertain the truth. Such is called the process of elimination. My father would frequently make use of this method with my sister and myself. If we were the only two who could have possibly eaten all the cookies, and if he were able to establish that the culprit wasn’t my sister, then it was me.
Likewise, one can come to know who it was that did write the Bible when it has been shown that all other possibilities did not write It. Who then did not write the Bible?
ATHEISTS did not write the Bible. They would not have proclaimed, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God” (Psa. 14:1). The atheist would not have referred to an existing Being named “God” 4,325 times. They would not have condemned themselves to eternal punishment by a Being in whom they do not believe (2 Thes. 1:8-9). No, atheists did not write the Bible.
UNIVERSALISTS did not write the Bible. They who believe that all mankind will be saved would not have written that which is recorded about the rich man (Luke 16:19-31), the broad way (Matt. 7:13), and the judgment scene (Matt. 25:46).
LIBERALS did not write the Bible. They who allow more than what is written would not have placed condemnation upon those who take away from God’s Word (Rev. 22:19), or go onward beyond the Scriptures (2 John 9).
MODERNISTS did not write the Bible. They who do not believe in miracles would not have written of Moses’ actions in Egypt, Jesus’ feeding the multitude, nor Peter’s walking upon water.
SECTARIANS did not write the Bible. Promoters of denominationalism and division would not have written what is recorded in 1 Corinthians 1:10.
MORALISTS did not write the Bible. Those who teach that one can be saved by his good morals would not have taught that good Cornelius was lost (Acts 10:1-2, 22; 11:14).
ANTI-BRETHREN did not write the Bible. Those who make laws in addition to God’s laws would not have written that they who add to the Scriptures will be punished (Rev.22:18).
The WORLDLY did not write the Bible. They who take pleasure in this world would not have condemned themselves (1 John 2:15-17).
CHRISTIANS did not write the Bible. If they did, many verses (such as Heb. 10:25; Rev. 3:15-16; Titus 2:11; etc.) would have been left out.
Truly, no group of humans wrote the Bible, otherwise it would not read as it does. Thus, since humans did not write the Bible, then, by the process of elimination, we can come to the conclusion that its author is God. May we accept the Bible “as it is in truth—the Word of God” (1 Thes. 2:13).
Gary Henson