WHY did God choose to write a book to communicate with the human family? This is what God did, what we read in these words: “All scriptures are inspired by God”. (2 Tim. 3:16) And the prophecies of these scriptures "were never caused by the will of men, but men spoke of God led by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:21
But why did this message have to be written? There are several reasons. For example, think about what the Bible is: the revelation of God to the human family. Among other things, he gives us the only correct account of the creation of the earth and of mankind. Tell us why God brought people to earth and what went wrong so that suffering, disease, and death are now plaguing human families. It also tells us what the solution will be so that God's plan for this earth and humanity is finally fully realized.
This information comes from the one who knows it best: the Creator himself. This type of knowledge cannot be obtained from human sources. It requires divine revelation.
The Bible also contains a full account of God's dealings with his people and nations over the centuries. And that includes God's laws and principles for human behavior.
This enormous amount of vital information, gathered over the centuries, could not be certain for the passage of oral tradition from one generation to the next. For example, would word of mouth from scribes and Pharisees who opposed Jesus be a reliable source of information about his life and work?
Or would a great nation allow its constitution or statutes to be respected only through oral rehearsal? No, but these legal requirements are carefully drafted to provide reliable advice for study and application.
Knowing that the human family would spread throughout the world, God knew that oral tradition would be a dangerous container for their communication with humanity. If you devote yourself to writing, your message will be better preserved. This is why the apostle Paul advised: "Do not go beyond what is written".
When God's communication is readable, sincere seekers of truth can carefully examine its contents. A person does not need to rely on someone with special skills to speak orally about details of God's purposes that may be distorted or overlooked. Having your words in a book gives us control over what others say about it. He did so in the first century because some "received the word with the greatest zeal and carefully considered the daily examination of the scriptures to see if this was the case." (Acts 17:11) We can do the same today because we have the Word of God in writing.
God is also economical and takes human limitations into account. His written post is not found in huge collections of encyclopedias that would be difficult for most people to obtain and read. Instead, God provided a simple volume that is easy to use and affordable. However, it is comprehensive enough to give us what we need. It answers all of our fundamental questions about who God is, what is the meaning of life and what the future holds.
It is true that God had communicated in other ways before. With our first parents, God was more direct.He did the same to Noah.On several occasions he sent angels to carry certain messages to a particular person or group.
As long as the family of God's servants was small, it was convenient. But with the rise of God's servants under the leadership of Noah and Shem, more was needed. After all, Israel's favorite nation has grown to several million after being freed from Egyptian captivity. God's relationship with his servants was no longer like that of a father with few children. With such a large family, written instructions are now needed.
The writing of the Bible began with the finger of God engraved on the Ten Commandments from Moses on stone tablets.Over a period of about 1,600 years, God's active power guided some 40 writers to contribute the sixty-six books that make up the Bible. These people “entrusted with divine declarations to God” were all faithful servants of Jehovah.
The practicality of having God's message in book form became clearer when Jesus said to his disciples: “You will have strength when the Holy Ghost falls on you and you will testify of me. both in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and in the most remote parts of the world.He also said: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth, that it may be a witness for all nations; and then comes the end. "- Matt 24:14.
God's written message meant that it could be translated into any language. This can be seen in the fact that God himself changed languages from Hebrew to Aramaic and Greek when he inspired the writing of the Bible. And because God oversaw the spread of his word, he kept his message intact, no matter how many languages it was translated into. So your written word is now convenient, useful and reliably available in hundreds of languages. It is available to people of all nations.
That the hand of God was the origin, transmission, and observance of his word is demonstrated by the care and extent to which the copy of the Bible was made. The Jewish scholar W. H. Green said of the Jewish section: "It is safe to say that no other ancient work has been transmitted with such precision." And on the Greek side, the scholar Jack Finegan wrote: “Even the close temporal relationship between the oldest manuscripts of the New Testament and the original texts is simply incredible. . . The certainty with which the text of the New Testament was written surpasses all other ancient books.
But all of this was predictable, because the Bible came to us "not as the word of men, but as it really is, as the word of God."Through the faith of those who sincerely want to worship God with righteousness, today we have God's loving disposition for the book he wrote, which is "a lamp to my feet." and a light on the way. "- Ps. 119: 105.