"And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers" (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
People protest that the Bible is written by men and therefore cannot be from God. Human beings make many errors in judgement. They say things to manipulate others for their own benefit. They have the reputation of taking advantage of others. Therefore to many it seems impossible that men could actually hear from God and deliver an untainted message. They use this reasoning to discard the Word if God.
The bible was written over a period of thousands of years, by forty authors who did not know one another, who were from different times and different cultures. There were periods of time when books were lost so that one generation did not know what another generation had written. Yet no book of the Bible contradicts another and all books carry the same basic message from deferring points of view.
God, who created all things is certainly powerful enough to speak through men and guard his message so that it is untainted by man. We call this message the Bible.
