Well, I have missed several days of this and several days of prospectus writing also. So now I am behind and really need to make up some ground. For me this is difficult when there are interesting and important things going on around me. Things that I am supposed to be involved in at our church. But anyway, this “daily” exercise is part of the routine of making myself write everyday. I am now 7 pages behind; I’ll have to do 3+ per day to catch up. Only problem is it takes a lot of reading to get ideas to fill up those pages. I love reading, but I am not a fast reader.
So today I thought I would write down some of my thinking concerning the inspiration of the Scriptures. These thought began to be developed in my mind as I was teaching our Advanced Biblical Studies class. In there, we study and discuss inspiration in quite some detail. What is it that we believe was(is) inspired? Was it the authors themselves? No, these were just men that God used at the time of inspiration. What they subsequently wrote to friends, etc. is not inspired. The men themselves were only inspired as they were moved along by the Holy Ghost. 2 Timothy says the writings (grapho) were given by inspiration of God. Some use the terms autographa and others like original autographs. I want to make these ideas plain and simple. Now they may not be correct and I am willing to be corrected, but I must put these thought out here so that they can be critiqued. Do we believe that the paper and ink used was/is inspired? Is that oversimplifying the issue? If you are following my thoughts, you can see that what I’m going to say is that the words themselves are what is inspired. Not the ideas, not the men who wrote them, but also not the ink and paper they were written on. It follows then naturally, that any accurate copy of the words (the same words on different paper, written with different ink) would carry the identical inspiration of the first paper and ink words. (The timer has gone off, bet let me conclude.) Some say that inspiration is a moot issue because the originals are no longer around, but I say (not that I’m an authority) that if the same words are still around, so is the same inspiration. The words (writings) were given by inspiration of God!
I know this brings up other topics like the possibility of whether the word could be faithfully and accurately copied over hundreds of years, but that is another topic. First, I would like to know what Bible believers think of this venture in thought. Has anyone else ever put forth this argument, am I the first? I doubt it. Am I in good company? Or in the same lot as fools?
You Think Too Much! 
You chose a broad topic for a ten minute blogging excursion. “Scripture” (graphe, the noun as opposed to your “grapho,” the verb), as you said, literally means “writing,” and technically the word refers specifically to the actual etchings or markings. Certainly those constituted words, but more accurately meant vowels, consonanents, vowel points, breathing marks, and accents that make up words in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. This also closes any holes through which conceptual inspiration can penetrate. Perfectly preserved by God, the copies suffice for every belief and practice.