The Bible is not God's Word

First lets explain what this debate was supposed to be, a debate on the historicity of the Bible this is a bit of a bait and switch move by my opponent as he freely admits in the comments. To take on this debate to me is daunting for I am defending the Holy word of God, my prayer is that I do His word justice and bring honor and glory to Jesus Christ thru this. Even so I will give my best and see how this goes. First if God is who the Christians believe all knowing, all present, the creator of all things not bound by time or space. Then to create a book written by 40 authors over the span of thousands of years would be a simple thing for such a being. What my opponent seems to forget is that very point God is the author and the one who watched of His word. It is quite interesting how 40 different authors could write anything that would carry a single theme through the entirety of the word is staggering at the thought. However my opponent wants to look at the idea of 40 people, some poor men, doctors, kings, and prophets, and the fact that they agree would be impossible. That would be very true unless of course God was involved as Christians believe. Now I have used a term several times that needs to be defined, Christians, many people in this world today claim the term Christian even if they believe Christ is not the messiah for Example Jehovah Witness will tell you they are Christian even though they do not believe Christ is the messiah. Then there are those who say they are Christian but believe that they can someday become a god, again a very far separation from the belief of the Witnesses so either one or the other is correct or both are wrong. According to Vines Expository Dictionary the term CHRISTIAN OR CHRISTIANOS, a word formed after the Roman style, signifying an adherent of Jesus, was first applied to such by the Gentiles and is found in Act 11:26, 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16. Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century says "The vulgar call them Christians." (1). So the term was a derogatory term in the 1st century however later it became the word we know today , however today the term is used very loosely as I have shown above. So do to these facts using others statements on their "Christian view" of the Bible and its authority is unreliable for we do not know the heart of the person making the statement, only God knows the heart. In my opponents first citation he uses the Huffington posts article with statement from the Pope, where the Pope carries some authority for the Catholic religion he does not speak for all Christians or their belief so his comments can only be related to the Catholic church and nowhere else. Next, my opponent reveals the concept of contradictions in the Bible this is not a new idea in any shape or form but in an attempt to bolster his position he makes a veiled comment of having many contradictions, "The sheer amount of contradictions in it" in fact there are over 800 so called contradictions in the Bible as documented in the book When Critics Ask by Norman Geisler (2). Each and every one of these so-called contradictions are fully explained in this short 600 page book. The typical reason that these so called contradictions occur is that they do not follow the principles for interpreting Scripture. Let"s look at what would happen if the Bible completely agreed, what would be said then? This in fact would be reason for Scripture to not be accepted it would be said that there was some plagiarism that occurred. The next common argument is that these words where not written down at first but they were shared by storytelling, invoking the thought of the old telephone game where someone would whisper a phrase to one person and that person would whisper what they heard to the next and so on only to the get to the end where the story was much different. However that is not how storytelling occurred in the past. A better example would be a person would whisper the story to the one next to them who would then say the story out loud to be corrected by everyone who knew the story. This is the exact same way we get the life of Alexander the Great whose work was not written down for over 100 years after his death. Finally, my opponent says this "These guys were writing solely for the purpose of spreading Christianity and obviously stretched the truth." It has been said that someone will die lie that they believe is the truth however no one will die for something they know was a lie. This has been proven throughout history and many times for example James Fry wrote a book that the most important parts where fabricated later the truth came out and under pressure admitted the truth (not even under death pressure just pressure), or Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer prize for her book again under some pressure admitted the truth and returned the prize. (2). All of apostles and many of the disciples suffered horrible deaths none of them recanted their position. There are a great many proofs to include corroborative evidence as to the work of Jesus and the record recorded on the Bible, again I would have preferred to do the debate we agreed upon and then this one, because what will happen is even after I show that these books are Gods word you will state they are not historical. (1)Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, copyright 1981 by Fleming H. Revell (2)When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties; by Norman L. Geisler and, Thomas Howe (3)http://www.healthdiaries.com...