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Who Inspired The Old Testament? – Ad Extra Activities Are Common
We know the New Testament was inspired by the Holy Ghost. Who inspired the Old Testament?…
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All three divine persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) inspired both the Old and the New Testaments. All the ad extra activities of God (i.e. activities toward the creation), such as the inspiration of Scripture, belong to God according to His divine nature/power. Since the divine nature/power is identical in all three divine persons, all those activities are common to all three persons.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino", 1441: “… the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are not three principles of the creature, but one principle.”
However, the inspiration of Scripture is attributed by appropriation to the Holy Spirit. To appropriate an action to one person of the Trinity means to attribute it to that person in a special way without excluding the others. This is done to help us better understand or remember, by way of analogy or comparison, that person’s role in the Trinity. Thus inspiration, for example, is appropriated to the Holy Spirit (even though, as stated, it properly belongs to all three persons) because the Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and the Son, and inspiration is intended for the good of others.
2 Peter 1:21- “… the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.”
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