'EVIDENCE OF INSPIRATION: CONSISTENCY AND CONTINUITY' BY PASTOR GREG ELKAN.

_ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God…_ – 2Ti 3:16

While prophetic and archaeological evidences can serve as helpful stepping stones in our appreciation of the Bible’s inspiration, even deeper evidences come to light when we closely study the writing process of the texts themselves that reveal several subtle and other not-so-subtle watermarks of divine inspiration. 

Two of such internal evidence are the continuity and consistency of the scriptural texts. While we generally treat the Bible as a single book, easily jumping from one section to another, in actual fact, the Bible is made up of 64 _separate_ books (66 if including Kings and Chronicles that were each split into two because of their bulk).

These books were written by approximately 40 different authors over the course of 1,500 years! That’s an incredible span of time for different persons _with no unifying editorial oversight_ to write a single message. As a matter of fact, some of the authors were unaware of each other’s existence, yet not only did they not contradict each other, their writings actually complement each other.

The authors come from diverse backgrounds and include shepherds, tax-collectors, kings, fishermen, lawyers, statesmen, physicians, etc. The books were written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek; with the vast timespan making the vocabulary of some of the books radically different from each other even though they were written in the same language. 

Yet in spite of these, the Bible books do not contradict each other and they all contain the same message. This can only be possible if all the writers had the _same_ Spirit in them: inspiring their utterances and guiding their editorial decisions. 

AMEN.

GREG ELKAN.

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