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2. True or False: The authors of Scripture were only instruments under the influence of the Holy Spirit, who dictated to them the words to be written down.

False. Para. 106: "God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. ‘To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more' (DV 11)."

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