"THROUGH" men - 'YES'. "BY" men - 'NO'. Of course I would say that while the scribes of the NT showed their personalities, intended audiences, etc., that nevertheless, God was the final editor of every jot and tittle. I would say that there was no cooperation from any of the authors of the scriptures. They were faithful scribes, but they were not writing of themselves. That all the authors of the Bible could be so completely consistent in message and so great in wisdom across hundreds of years appears impossible to me if their human weaknesses were subject to being included in the final text. To me, God gets the only copyright on this book."
FK, isn't this essentially a Mohammaden way of looking at scripture? By that I mean the "faithful scribes" part?
I must say that your comment leads me a bit, in my simple Balkan way, to understand the "sola scriptura" idea.
Probably, but since my knowledge of Mohammad is very limited, I can't swear to it. :) I suppose one distinction would be that our God (yours and mine) spread around the truth to many people (across many hundreds of years), as opposed to just the "prophet" Mohammad. I just see the internal consistency and purity of the Bible as unequaled anywhere else in the history of literature. I can't believe there was any accident to it, or that any failing of man found inclusion.