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  1. Question 2: Read the Ellen White quote above regarding how inspiration works. How does this help us to understand the “human element” that appears at times in the Bible?

    I think when Ellen White says in the referenced quote, “God, as a writer, is not represented” she is not saying that the “human element” only appears at times but rather that the human as the writer of scripture is pervasive. Meaning outside of a very few places in scripture where God’s own words and writing appears, man is doing the writing. When it comes to inspiration God works in the background not the foreground.

    Inspiration is the combining of both the human and the divine much like Jesus was fully human and fully God where one does not overrule the other, it is a team effort. That is why we see so many places in the Bible where there appears to be literary contradiction. In those instances the human side of inspiration becomes very evident since there is no contradiction with God (Heb 13:8; James 1:17; Num 23:19; Mal 3:6). We also see a very wide variety of writing styles where the writer's background becomes evident.

    God gives His prophets thoughts, ideas, and concepts and then they put those thoughts in their own words which comes out of their religious, social, and educational background. That is why God was so careful in choosing His prophets and yet even with all that care, once in while one will go off the deep end in distorting what God gave them in an effort to serve themselves such as Balaam.

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