Is the Bible human literature?

[Daniel_Fisher]

@St.Roymond

@Bill_II

I found an interesting take on B.B. Warfield’s view of inspiration. He proposed God would foreknow what each writer would do in a given set of circumstances. Then He simply setup the circumstances so the writer would chose the word that He wanted of the writer’s free will. This way the words are exactly what God wanted while being the product of the writer’s free will.

Yeah, that view of Warfield’s disgusted me the first time I read it! A classmate summarized it well: “Makes Yahweh a manipulative SOB, eh?”

I fail to see that if God worked behind the scenes, so to speak, specifically to avoid any manipulation of the writer whatsoever, how one concludes that Yahweh would be being manipulative by intentionally avoiding any such manipulation?

Besides, don’t all Christians agree that this is what happened with Pilate and the crucifixion? That what Pilate et al did according to their own free choices was nevertheless according to God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge? How exactly would that be any different?