Many Christians claim the bible was inspired by their god. There is no outside source for this proposition but the bible itself - circular logic there. But is it true that the bible was inspired by god? With god being omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent what would you expect of a piece of work from his hands and mind?

There should be no superlative grand enough to describe the work of such a being. But is that what we find in the bible? Are there any grand truths in the bible? If it is the inspiration of god, how did god transfer his thoughts into the minds of the writers of the bible? Was it thru visions, trances, hallucinations, audible voices, hand-holding, telepathy etc. If this really was the work of god, would you expect the following in god's own work;

1) Falsehood
2) Contradictions
3) Distortions and corruption
4) God ordering massacres, genocide, human sacrifices, cannibalism
5) Almost anything that can be scientifically attested is wrong

What would be your framework for deciding a piece of work as belonging to a given individual? Supposing in 300 years time someone were to discover a piece of writing that purports to be the work of Einstein. How would we go about proving or disproving this as Einstein's work, given that we have copies of his genuine work and we know the high standard of his mind.

Can someone come up with a framework for assessing works that are claimed to be god-inspired? Can this framework be applied to the bible and the Ko-ran?

To my mind, these books are consistent with the minds of primitive bronze-age people with very little knowledge of the reality around them.