If God wanted His word in writing, why didn't He give Adam and Eve writing skills ?
2006-10-16 02:38:31 · 14 answers · asked by Carma 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well a fair reason was because the Bible was carried on orally for so long. Science has proved that people can be trained to memorized long, long stories without changing the words if they're brought up in oral traditions.
I think a better question may be why people want to bash religions. Certainly the Earth isn't 6,000 years old and the ad hoc explanations for things like dinosaurs border on the insane, but who cares? Why not let people be happy? Let it be dude, let it be.
2006-10-16 02:41:35 · answer #1 · answered by fortonmi 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
While the Bible isn't the oldest written document, it contains the oldest historical information of any document. Adam and Eve may or may not have been able to write but back then it is assumed that information was passed along by word of mouth. If you look at the age of Adam and follow it down to Noah, you will notice that Noah was 5 years old when Adam died. After the flood, you have a new generation of people who would not have a need for a written account of God's activity before the flood. Besides that, except for the book of Genesis, the Bible basically starts with Moses leading the Jewish people out of Egypt and the first five books of the Bible are supposed to have been written by Moses so that the following generations would have an account of what had gone on before.
2006-10-16 09:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps there was no Adam and Eve.
Perhaps the beginning is much, much older than the concept of Adam and Eve.
Because there are drawings, other communications older than the story of Adam and Eve, it makes this question mute!
2006-10-16 09:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by vividtoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said Adam and Eve didn't have writing skills?
2006-10-16 09:44:48 · answer #4 · answered by Answer King 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He may have, and He likely did. Do you think those documents would have survived the flood? Even if they were carved in stone, unless Noah had them on the ark with him, they could be buried under a lot of earth. From what I've read, the flood changed the earth's surface quite a bit.
2006-10-16 09:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were too busy bunking off school and snogging behind the bike shed to bother learning such things as writing and reading.
Oh and they took illegal substances, such as apples, that clouded their judgement.
Then they became interested in fashion and wore the latest fig leaf g strings and well their went any hope of their writing an autobiography
2006-10-16 09:47:29 · answer #6 · answered by pulldeplug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the scripture is as old as Adam a.s., of course it content would be corrupted by human hand with the passing of time, same that has been happening to the Bible.
Thats why God revealed The Quran, the latest and uncorrupted scripture, truly the word of God.
2006-10-16 09:43:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doh.
There were also lots of other Gods before the Christian version.
Greek gods. Roman gods. Pagan gods. They all got sacked like last years pop stars. Now its the Christian Gods turn to fade out of memory and relevance.
2006-10-16 09:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Cave drawings
2006-10-16 09:39:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
its nt the oldest religion! we have other religions which r older than christanity, like Hinduism is the oldest of them all. we live in one 'yuga", which now is the 'kalyuga' and there have been three "yugas" before this and hinduism is in the first "yuga".
So, well Bible isnt the oldest one.
2006-10-16 09:43:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋