The ingenious design of the Bible provides a very strong argument, too.
The
Bible is at once, SIXTY-SIX books, and yet truly, ONE BOOK.
The great scholar, CI Scofield
said: “From Genesis the Bible bears witness to one God.
Wherever He speaks
or acts he is consistent with himself, and with the total revelation concerning Him.
The
Bible forms one continuous story --the story of humanity in relation to God.
The Bible hazards
the most unlikely predictions concerning the future, and, when the centuries have brought round the appointed time, records
their fulfillment.
The Bible is a progressive unfolding of truth.
Nothing is told all at once, and once for all. The law is, “First the blade, then the ear, after that
the full grain.”
Without the possibility of collusion, often with centuries between,
one writer of Scripture takes up an earlier revelation, adds to it, lays down the pen, and in due time another man moved by
the Holy Spirit, and another, and another, add new details till the whole is complete.
From
beginning to end the Bible testifies to one redemption. The Bible has one great theme--the Person and work of Christ.
Finally, these writers, some forty in number, writing through twenty centuries, have produced
a perfect harmony of doctrine in progressive unfolding.
This is, to every candid mind,
the unanswerable proof of the divine inspiration of the Bible.”
