Its wonderful unity convinced me. The Bible is not really one book; it is 66 books. There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament. If you were to print them on average 20-pound paper, with average margins, use an average size font, and put them in an average binding, they would fill an average shelf. They were written over a period of about 1500 years by at least 40 different authors and in at least three different languages.
They were written by people of all walks of life. Some were poets. Some were shepherds. Some were kings. Some were herdsmen. Some were farmers. Some were prophets. Some were preachers. And some were priests. In many instances, the one had not read what the other had written. Yet when you gather these materials together, they don’t read like 66 books. They read like one book.
How is that possible? God planned His Book from the beginning. “Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).
