Why do some people think that Jesus did not author a book?

Question

How come these people don't know, so read Revelations 1:
"1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw."

Notice "the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him..."

This reminds me of a good question though. There is a Biblical note about Jesus writing in the sand at one point.

Answer 1

That is what it says in verses 1-3 , that is the source but read verse 4 it says From John to the seven churches in country of Asia.

This would be like my writing you a letter and starting it with my daddy said to me and now I am telling you...

All of scripture originated with God but He gave his words to men who wrote it down

Yes Jesus did write in the sand but we are not told what wrote only what he said. He left the written record of His life to those who were there to witness it

Answer 2

A) You skipped the rest of the verse.
Rev 1:1 THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show to his servants those things which must soon come to pass; he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John,


B) You omitted the Letter of Jesus to Abgarus.

C) John 8:6-8 They said this to tempt him, that they might have a cause to accuse him. While Jesus was bent down, he was writing on the ground. (7) When they were through questioning him, he straightened himself up and said to them, He who is among you without sin, let him first throw a stone at her. (8) And again as he bent down, he wrote on the ground.

Answer 3

Neither the term "revelation" or "testimony" is indicitive of WRITING. All that quote shows is that John may have written something. But it's pretty much shown that all the four Gospels were not actually written even by the apostle who's name appears on them - but they were written down 150 to 300 years later.

And "writing in the sand" could just mean doodling, or drawing. But in any case, sand writing doesn't have the same lasting power as pen and paper.

Answer 4

If you wish to think that God giving the Revelation to John THROUGH Christ, makes Christ the author of a book ...fine.
Let us not quibble.
Even if Jesus wrote something in the sand, it only proves he could write ....which should never have been in doubt.
Mind you, writing in the sand is not authoring a book.

Answer 5

Because Jesus actually did not write any book by any historical account. However, if you believe that Jesus is God and in a spiritual sense that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, then perhaps Jesus can be said to have authored a book----the Word of God.

Answer 6

It was thousands of years ago. Before people had a clue about the modern world we live in. No electricity, no motors, no printing presses, not even indoor plumbing. The entire bible was written by scared men in a violent world with political motivation, who wouldn't know what an hypothesis was if it hit them in the face.

We are still in the dark ages as a species. We believe in nations, fear controls us, violence persists and war is constant. Ignorance dominates knowledge throughout large areas of the world.

The human race is in toddler mode - scared of monsters under the bed, wetting our pants after a goblin story, believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. We need to grow up and get away from goblins, witches, angels, demons, gods and devils.

Knowledge is the path to truth. Don't read and depend on old books written by scared little men with political agendas back before they had indoor plumbing. Those books/religions require the truth be disregarded. The Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon etc. etc. are all loaded with contradictions to science. The way to tell if something is true is through testable, repeatable observation. Not praying, hoping and worshiping.

Get an education and gain knowledge about the observable world, and then you can think on your own and be responsible for your own actions as a legitimate member of the human race that has been delivered from the dark ages.

Spread the truth and maybe we'll all be saved . . . from our ignorance.

Answer 7

Jesus gave it to John, who was on Earth, while Christ was in Heaven. Only one could write it, John. How can a spirit, Christ, write a physical book? And do you think if he did, that anyone would believe it any more? I think if it came directly from heaven, people would really be skeptical of that story.

Answer 8

Jesus was a humble man. In other words he took no credit for anything he did. Others gave him credit and wrote about what he did, however he was to humble to really acknowledge any of these things.

This is the reason Jesus never wrote a book. Even when he preached, he never said this is what to do. All he ever really said is this is what I think you should do.

A good example of this is when people ased him how to pray. He said unto them you should pray like this....

He did not say pray this prayer.

Answer 9

I think the sand thing must have been His first book.

So are you saying that John the Apostle was like a Ghost Writer?

Bottom line it's not our salvation, it doesn't matter. We know that it is the unrefuted Word of God. What matters is do we love like Jesus loves?

Answer 10

Jesus never authored anything. There is not one word written by him. About the writing in the sand, true, but no one knows what was written. It happend when they were going to stone the adultress. He wrote something in the sand with his finger.