Literature that is inspired by God

[Jazzy]

How do we know there is no other literature that is inspired by God?

Is the Bible the only inspired literature from God or are there other inspired writings, and if there are, how can we determine if they truly are inspired or not?

 

[Lees]

How do we know there is no other literature that is inspired by God?

Is the Bible the only inspired literature from God or are there other inspired writings, and if there are, how can we determine if they truly are inspired or not?

You ask a question that would be very long and intricate to answer. It involves 'inspiration', and the 'canonization', of the books of the Bible.

The short answer is this. Yes the Bible is the only written Word of God on earth. No other writings are the Word of God. So, you don't need to determine if other writings are 'inspired' or not. They are not.

Lees

 

[Manonfire63]

It depends on what you are looking for. Thoughts have a lot to do with spirits. Spirits effect motivations. How is someone motivated, and to what ends? Someone could have a dream or vision. That dream or vision may have been something from God. It may have ended up in a book like "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Man is sitting in Church day dreaming. The pastor was talking about Evangelism, and being saved. He talks about that a lot. Man is bored, and day dreaming. He falls asleep some. His day dreams, they may have been allegorical. He didn't understand it. He didn't know how to decipher them. He didn't think much of it. Those visions may have been tied to something God would like him to do in an allegorical way.

Spiritual things are complex and allegorical. In Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel has a vision of angels. This is complex. This understood allegorically. Joseph and Daniel both deciphered, through God, some dreams. These were allegorical. The Book of Revelations is a vision of the spiritual. It is understood allegorically.

Spiritual Allegories may have been tied to real physical things. In Daniel 7, Daniel has a vision of beasts. These beasts may have been something in the spiritual or principalities. Every so often they manifested in the character of certain Kingdoms or Empires.

In the media, the media could be music, TV/movies, video games, or books, someone may have had a vision from God. How do we know which content is from God, and what it is relating? Spiritual Discernment.

9-10 The next day as they were nearing the city, Peter went up on the flat roof of his house to pray. It was noon and he was hungry, but while lunch was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw the sky open and a great canvas sheet,[a] suspended by its four corners, settle to the ground. 12 In the sheet were all sorts of animals, snakes, and birds forbidden to the Jews for food.[b]
13 Then a voice said to him, “Go kill and eat any of them you wish.”
14 “Never, Lord,” Peter declared, “I have never in all my life eaten such creatures, for they are forbidden by our Jewish laws.”
15 The voice spoke again, “Don’t contradict God! If he says something is kosher, then it is.”
16 The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was pulled up again to heaven. (Acts 10:9-10)

Peter has a vision. Revelation. Given someone has Revelation, he is supposed to give testimony of it to the Church. The Church should be like minded men, who have proven to have God's Holy Spirit. (Philippians 2:2) Then they discuss and pray about it.

In the media, for the last 2000 years or so, there may have been interesting things that were from God, that people took as fiction.

 

[Manonfire63]

A man's body is a temple. Jesus lives in a man through his Holy Spirit. Someone who was of God's Holy Spirit may have been thinking about God a lot, and been prone to God centered things. He dwells on God's Law. (Psalms 1:1-4)

There are other spirits. Someone who was unrepentant, in a Church, they may have had some spiritual "Hangers on," like bugger hanging out of someone's nose. They had some other spirits residing in there.

Given someone was of some other spirit, sometimes, there are spiritually relevant visions. They may not have been 100% correct, or of God, but there was something to them. In general, given someone was talking about the spiritual.....there may have been something there. It may need translated or decoded.

I could give examples. Not right now.

 

[BruceLeiter]

How do we know there is no other literature that is inspired by God?

Is the Bible the only inspired literature from God or are there other inspired writings, and if there are, how can we determine if they truly are inspired or not?

The Bible itself says that God inspired it:
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Elements of the truth can be found in other kinds of literature. You can take it from me, a former English teacher and then a Christian preacher, but secular literature is set in a different context that does not give God credit for what he has done.