Why would god make it so easy for them 2000 years ago, but not have the foresight to see that Future languages would find it difficult to interpret his words? Hadn't he heard of Lost in Translation?
If he was all knowing why didn't he right it in some future language that would be crystal clear to everyone who read it?
2006-10-11 11:21:27 · 17 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-10-11 19:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an excellent question. The Messengers of God speak to the people of their time and to their capacity to understand. For example, if they spoke in modern English and about evolution or nuclear physics - they would not be understood since these were not even conceived at the time. Jesus Himself said he had to speak in parables and could not tell everything.
This is one of the reasons why no revelation can be final since as humankind progresses spiritually, it needs to be given a new revelation. To believe that revelation stopped 2000 or 1300 years ago is a sad claim.
The other reason is that as time progresses and the message that was clear and motivated heroic spiritual actions eventually becomes misinterpreted and confused. The Buddha said that every 500 years 1/5 of His revelation will be forgotten - we are now 2500 years from His message. The same is true for all revelations.
Therefore - when the times are very dark and the original message has been "forgotten", a new Teacher and with a new Revelation will arrive to renew the True Faith that was taught by all the prophets and messengers of the past. This is how it has been since the beginning and will continue into the future.
2006-10-11 18:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is the people who talk about the Bible code. I seriously saw them come up with code from an ENGLISH version of the bible. As if the codes were put in there for the bible to be translated years later.
It was a book written in metaphors, by people who spoke in metaphors. At the time "walking on water" meant you followed a river.
2006-10-11 18:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world was never meant to be left with out prophets. Prophets are the ones that inturpret and prophesy in God's place. So the question isn't "Why didn't god write a better word?" It's "Why did humanity kill off the only link they had to God?" Amos 3:7 i think...
2006-10-11 18:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by jiggliemon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh my, my. The prose and cadence of the biblical language is not the way it was spoken 2K years ago. It's the interpretation of the various (and many!) scribes of the ancient scrolls. And it was the western European scribes and writers that picked that style of writing as they strove to interpret old Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Pick up the following book to learn more.
"Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman.
2006-10-11 18:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The things of God are spiritually discerned. If you are born again in Jesus Christ, God will reveal to you the meaning within His word. I'm not meaning to talk down to you...I think this is a good question. But, if you are born again, and study the bible, well....it's meaning is pretty clear.
I've been studying the bible for ten years; my life has been transformed because of His word. Do I understand every single thing in the bible? No. But I understand enough that my life is beautiful, and His word lives in me.
2006-10-11 18:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be sort of pointless speaking to people then in a language that they wouldn't understand. Whereas you would think that older languages or dialects wouldn't be difficult to understand now.
eg. What does thou shalt not kill mean?
See, it's all too confusing.
2006-10-11 18:41:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Translating between languages is not nearly as difficult as you seem to believe.
2006-10-11 18:26:20 · answer #8 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because the words had nothing to do with God. They came from the imagination of men.
2006-10-11 18:28:37 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I'm not into christianity too much, but the orignal interpretation of how hell was supposed to mean was a good place to go.
Fire means consume
brimstone means godlike divinity
a place of passion and focus for exploration.
2006-10-11 18:25:05 · answer #10 · answered by Corey 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are joking, right? God didn't write the Bible number one. And it was TRANSLATED into the style of English of 1611...and there ARE modern language Bibles out there.
2006-10-11 18:24:47 · answer #11 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋