In 2Timothy 3:16, we see the words "inspiration of God". In the Greek text, it is the word "Theopnestos" and means literally "Divinely breathed". Theo is the word for God, and pneo is the word for breathe, or breathed out. The word pneo is used 7 times in the New Testament and is used in connection with the wind physically, which breathes i.e. blows like one who breathes outwardly.
Interestingly, the word for the Spirit in the NT is pneuma, the same word used for the wind. Even in the OT, the Hebrew word "rucha" is the word for Spirit and for the wind.
Even the Lord Jesus speaks to Nicodemus about the Spirit in connection with the wind in John 3:8. The Lord Jesus said, 'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit'. (KJV) Jesus speaks of the operations of the Holy Spirit compared to the wind.
Jesus did that on many occasions. He used the physical to explain the spiritual, like we see with the parables. A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. So just as the wind moves physically to do and accomplish its work, the Spirit moves in a spiritual way to accomplish His Work, and the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit moved on men to write down the Word of God.
In 2Peter 1:20-21 (KJV), it speaks that 'Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost'.
We see the same in John 14:26 when Jesus promised the Holy Spirit when He went to be with the Father after His resurrection, Jesus said, 'But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and brings all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you'. (KJV) The author of scripture is the Holy Spirit; it originated from God and not from man.
The word "moved" in 2Peter 1:21 is a sea-faring term that describes the effects of the wind upon a ship as it blows against its sails and moves it through the water. In the same way, the Holy Spirit moved on the Biblical writers to produce the Word of God in the language of man. The pen men of whom the Spirit of God moved upon understood they were penning God's Word and did with assurance and with authority. In 2Peter 3:15-16 Peter recognised that Paul's epistles were scripture. The reason Paul confidently wrote, 'All scripture is given by inspiration of God'. The OT and NT (the Bible) is the literal breathe of God.
