OK, I keep getting pinged here, and have read through the recent discussion and offer this observation, related to the content:
When we see statements like: “God said himself” or “the perfection of God’s word” or statements that God himself wrote the Bible, we’re veering into a non-Christian view and toward the view that God literally dictated or directly wrote the entire Scriptures.
This is true in the Moslem view, but in the Christian view the whole of Scriptures are inspired by not literally written by God. We then have many different translations and interpretations.
An illustration of the difference is the Islamic prohibition against translation of Qu’ran.
It’s an important distinction. Perfection is an attribute of the infinite, of God only, not any book or translation. To mistake the finite for the infinite is the big step toward idolatry.
We may refer to Scripture as “God’s word;” however God’s Word is much larger and not reducible to words.
The meanings and facts we take from Scripture must take this into account if we wish to seek truth.
If you really don’t that the Bible really is God’s word in every respect, then there is no point in attempting to discuss anything with you.
God really has proven that it is his perfect word by interlacing it with humanly impossible, numerically based patterns that could only have been done by the creator of all things. This is his seal to all that are his own. It could not be by accident, and if you had any understanding of the laws of probability, you probably would not have even written this post.