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Inspiration - The Greek word translated "inspiration" literally means "God breathed" and is the process by which the Holy Spirit communicated the divine message to man in such a way that He utilized the pen, style, and personality of the authors, yet the communication is of God and is the Word of God.

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Personal Opinion:

Anyone who reads the Bible through, takes the time to consider what he has read and gives some thought to the theme and substance of what he has read will have to be struck with the consistency and purity of its contents.  It will have to strike him with how improbable it would be that so many authors over so many years could put together such a collection of books with out guidance.

In fact so improbable that it takes a great degree of cynicism to attribute such an improbable happening to anything but divine guidance.  It is not by chance that those who twist and distort scripture the most in an attempt to discredit the accuracy of the Bible are confessed atheists who hate the very notion of a God.