Deut 8:2-3
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.
3 And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
(KJV)
God's Holy Writ is a whole lot more than a collection of writings or books. Holy Writ is The Living Word of God, and will never pass away. It is a lot different than man's idea of literature. There's a lot of unbelievers in the universities that teach religious studies that treat The Bible as a group of writings comparable to religious writings of other religions. They do that in ignorance of what God's Word really is; they don't know the difference. But those in Christ Jesus should... know the difference.
Religious writings of other religions are man's writings, since God did not call them to give His Word. Those other religious writings are man trying to approach the Divine on their own, struggling for the Truth, while God's Word He gave through those He called in The Bible is The Truth. Big difference between Truth and the idea of religion.
There is no other known literature like God's Holy Writ. It is much more than just words grouped to form sentences. God's Word has a particular type of structure that no other known literature has. It has Holy Spirit markings in the structure that reveal a Divine Hand that no other literature of man has. One of the best study Bibles that reveals this is E.W. Bullinger's KJV study Bible called The Companion Bible. The Christian scholar Bullinger lists this structure in the side margins. The layout of the subjects when outlined reveal a remarkable structure, actually miraculous. No man when writing could do it regardless of the amount of pre-planning.
Another service Bullinger did was to research the lost meanings of the twelve star constellations, per his work The Witness of The Stars. Over time the 12 constellation names and meanings have become corrupted by pagan religion. Bullinger did a lot of travelling to discover archaeological artifacts that reveal a most ancient description of the constellations much different than the pagan meanings given them later. What he found was God's Word written in the star constellations. What literature of man has such a history as that? None.
What man today can give writings that prophesy future events down to a tee, even thousands of years ahead of time? None. Yet that's what God's Word has done, AND still IS doing today, for much prophecy that's written in God's Word The Bible has yet to come to pass, but will eventually. We can count on it to come to pass as written because It is The Truth, and not just words of men.
