Adam,

Try this little exercise… Try and write a short story that exhibits love, humility and compassion but is NOT inspired by God. I bet you can’t do it.  I bet that if your story exhibits these traits then when we read it we will all agree it was “inspired by God”. Even more amazing is that your story will also be the "word of God" because it will be repeating the message that Jesus already delivered. It will be delivering the same truth that was in the beginning with God and became flesh through the life and teachings of Jesus.

Measuring what texts God inspires is very easy if you are willing to re-examine your understanding or "image" of God.  I place my faith in the image of God that we find in the biblical accounts of Jesus’ description of God.  I feel that God is love. I don’t just think that God is a being that loves, but I actually believe the biblical words that God is love. I believe God’s nature is humility and compassion because that is the nature revealed in Jesus.  Anytime someone loves someone else then God is being manifested.  Therefore, I would argue that ANY text or experience that truly exhibits love, humility, and compassion is "inspired by God".

I would suggest we commonly misinterpret what it means to be inspired by the spirit of God.  This misinterpretation comes from all the weird little theological nuances that we have to put in place if we want to prop up the strictly literal Trinitarian view of the Holy Spirit as a "being" rather than understating it as the nature of God that we take on as we undergo the radical transformation of character described by Jesus.  The traditional theology tries to make spirit = ghost or being without a body. But it isn’t that complicated or spooky.  If we just see spirit as a metaphor for "nature" or "character" and inspiration is anything done in that “nature” then it makes everything so simple.

The literary personification of character traits or intellectual and emotional concepts was very common in literature at the time of the bible.  For example the use of the name Sophia was used to describe wisdom throughout many ancient texts of the same time period.  You will see that picked up by the author of certain verses in Proverbs (chapter 8 for example) that refers to wisdom in the form of a female.