God used human beings to write the Bible. All of them were men and they were all Jews. That is why the Bible says in Romans 3:2 that God entrusted His whole revelation in the hands of Jews. The number of men God used was about 40.
Some of the men were unlettered and ordinary people academically.
God didn’t mind whether the person He used was a farmer, fisherman, maker of tents, physician, shepherd, prophet, king, priest, etc. God inspired all of them, and made them to write His Word.
The Bible thus records the mind of God and not the minds of the writers, though in some cases, God allowed the writer to use his (the writer’s) words to express what God wanted. In spite of this, there is still unity in the theme and purpose of the entire Holy Bible.
Moses started writing the Bible by writing the book of Genesis.
God used many other people to write different books of the Bible.
The last person God used to write the division of the Bible called Old Testament was Prophet Malachi. He wrote the book of Malachi.
After Prophet Malachi wrote the Book of Malachi, writing of the Bible stopped for almost 500 hundred years. It was after that period that Apostle Matthew wrote the Gospel of Matthew which is in the division of the Holy Bible called New Testament.
The last writer used by God to write the Bible was Apostle John. The last books he wrote were the Gospel of John, First, Second, and Third Books of John.
The books of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were written over a period of more than 1500 years.
The Bible has been translated in part or in whole into over 1200 different languages and dialects. (Get Latest Information)
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