Inspiration of Scripture

This is the sharpest possible contrast in this whole registry between two developed doctrines of scriptural authority: the Veda is held to be apauruṣeya (not authored by any person, including God), eternally existent, and merely ‘seen’ (dṛś) by ṛṣis in a state of heightened perception. Biblical inspiration is the opposite claim — a personal God moved specific human authors, at specific points in history, to write exactly what he intended. These are not two versions of the same idea; they are structurally incompatible theories of how scripture comes to exist, and must be explicitly contrasted, not merely translated past.