Why do people believe the omnipotence of God can fit within the pages of a mere book?

Question

God is infinite, and Gods infinity is beyond comprehension of a mere book, so why do people who follow the bible or the koran or the torah believe that their book has all the answers and truths of God?

God is beyond the pages of a book.

Answer 1

Because there are some people who behave like the frog who was born, bred and livedin a well and insisted to a bird who visited the well bottom, that the well is the ONLY possibility of what he understood as the Universe.

As they said in the movie "Matrix", ...The Oracle Only Told You What You Needed To Know At The Time.....*mysterious music plays*

Answer 2

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

"so why do people who follow the bible or the koran or the torah believe that their book has all the answers and truths of God?" - They don't, in Christianity. Muhhamed said, that he is the last prophet. Not so in Christianity. Esp. in Eastern Orthodox Church (Catholics believe their "age of saintly fathers" ended, but in Eastern Orthodox Church we have a lot of saintly fathers glorified till today). In Church there is such thing as Holy Tradition - the writing of saintly fathers inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Bible being the part of it.
See, for example, section "The Bible, Holy Tradition, and the patristic consensus" at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church

Answer 4

The Bible is the book of God's chosen people. It contains their reflections on their relationship with God across centuries. The Bible is the Authoritative source for Christian theology. Contained within its pages, is the story of the Christ event--the primary revelation of God that carries final authority.

The Bible does not contain God; it points toward Him. The Bible points toward Christ, in Whom, creation may be redeemed and reconciled with God.

Answer 5

I agree, Earthy, 100 %. It's impossible to contain and imprison God into the confines of a Bible, Torah, Pentatuech, etc.

Answer 6

The most amazing revelation to mankind-- that we are but a speck of dust in a vast universe that does NOT revolve around us, but expands into other planetary systems, other GALAXIES!MILLIONS, Billions! of them, we are only a tiny part of the biggest picture which the bible-- supposedly the best book of wisdom we have--writers couldn't even fathom, never mind even scratch the surface...
that's fairy tales of primitive men,
we are in the space age and the age of enlightenment that those who were supposedly inspired by "God" couldn't even grasp with their primitive minds if they tried.

Answer 7

2 Timothy chapter 3 says the bible is God breathed, inspired and delivered.

It is the only infalliable truth, those words are more real than the words in your question or in my answer.

Answer 8

God is not confined to a book- or time or space- or our finite minds- it does not even contain all the things Jesus did- and it states so- D

Answer 9

who says that they believe this,I certainly don`t, God has revealed the smallest particle of His Glory which is contained in the Bible and this is enough for our finite minds.
glory and praise to the Lord

Answer 10

God is on the back cover of my book. He has a long white beard like Santa.