it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
This is one of the clearest proofs in the Bible that God did not always dictate the words of Scripture to the writers who simply copied them down. That view is the dictation theory of inspiration. He did this with some passages (e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; et al.) but not most.