Was The Holy Bible inspired? Is that the real question? Is It authentic? Or is It just words from the mouths of men’s babelings? Peter gives the answer:

2 Pet 1:16    For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
17    For He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory, ‘This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.’
18    And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount.
19    We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20    Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21    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.

     To be an Apostle for Christ, means to be ‘sent’ by God for a mission, with ‘direct’ evidence from Divine Authority. God’s Divine Presence either by The Holy Spirit giving the prophets of old vision or Word, or Christ Himself on earth selecting His Apostles, or in Heaven selecting Paul for his Mission, gave us His Holy Scripture.

TRANSLATIONS
There are many Bible ‘translations’ available today; and many corrupt translations, which can easily be verified by going back to the Manuscripts. This is why I recommend a King James Version of 1611 and a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance as minimum Bible study tools. Dr. James Strong, a Christian scholar, did a great work for our Lord, and for us, by giving us the definitions of the manuscript words used in the King James 1611 Version translation. That means with a Strong’s Concordance, one can ‘verify’ back to the Manuscript languages which the King James translators used. If one can use a plain old Webster’s dictionary, then they can learn to use a Strong’s Concordance.
     The original writers of our Holy Bible did not make any mistakes in putting God’s Word down in ‘letters’. The mistakes come from ‘translations’ and ‘man’s traditions’ based on those ‘letters’.