Curt:
It is a matter of God's sovereignty, I think. The men God chose to convey His words through verbal and written means do not have the power to thwart God's will. Man, on the other hand, no matter how much he tries, is not able to speak or write without sin. So when God selects a man to be His prophet and spokesman, and He wishes it to written to stand for all time, man's sin is powerful enough to withstand every effort man makes to be faithful, but it has no power to withstand God's intended aims.

Even sinful men have moved God's landmarks, to show their disdain for His "so-called omnipotence", as they often mock. But in the end those landmarks fall exactly where God had intended them to be all along, far before the thought had ever entered the minds of those who mocked Him.

Men wrote the Scriptures to the best of their ability, but it is God who safeguarded the text. So this goes far beyond dictation, though it too may have been involved.

just my :wr50:

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John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism