If the Almighty Creator of the Universe decided to write a book to guide humankind...?

Question

Don't you think it would have been more accessible to the average person? More comprehensible? Less contradictory?

And what's with the burning bushes and the talking snakes and the famines and plagues? Is this supposed to teach us something? Why all the threats and fear? Is this guidance? Is this love?

Why would the Creator write a book, anyway? Wouldn't a movie make more sense?

If humanity is so important to the Creator, then why don't we all just have a regular sit-down face-to-face get-together and celebrate the joy of Creation every once in a while?

Are all these bad-*** men in the world SO bad that they hold the rest of the world hostage in violence and poverty and the Creator can't do anything about it except to threaten to punish them in some fiery afterlife?

Did 300 million innocent people die in the Indonesian tsunami by accident? Or did some perverse god punish them for...for what? For the sin of being born?

Explain this to me, please.

Answer 1

Pick one question and I will be happy to try. To start with, I will answer your first and your last. If you want more, you will have to e-mail me. The Bible is the most accessable book in the world at this time and God (and many others) encourage people to read and study it for themselves. He will grant holy spirit to help a person understand it if they will just pray for it. Once you understand it, it doesn't contradict itself either, but you have to have the whole, big picture. Remember, in the Bible where the Etheopian Eunich was reading the scriptures and Phillip was sent to instruct him? The Eunich said, "How could I understand without someone to help me" (paraphased). Well, the Bible is also like that. God has chosen people to help others to understand. And he sends them--most people send them away. The right hearted ones recognize the voice of Jesus as it rings true in their words and they open their hearts and their eyes and see.
Satan is in control on earth right now and God is allowing bad things to happen because God knows that nothing can have any permanant ill effect on anyone here if he chooses to fix it, he will. God does not cause any wickedness or badness and he will not burn his children alive in fire either. Men have listened to Satan's lies so long that they have started believing that they are truth. That is why everyone really needs to read the Bible, pray for holy spirit to help you understand and watch for someone to come help because you never know where the help might come from---------BUT ALWAYS read the Bible for yourself and make sure they are telling you the truth!!

Answer 2

He didn't write a book - even most Christians acknowledge this. The Bible is just a record of man's understanding of God over time. It is not God's revelation to man, and was not written by God.

Answer 3

the ten plagues as a warning to pharoah.......wasnt told for the purpose of killing him alone.........but as a warning for him to repent and turn around but he was haughty and disrespectful to god...........(exodus5:2)..........god didnt send all plagues al at the same time but lovingly warned him each time...............in exodus 7:11 where magic practicing priests proved to be worthless in aarons snakes........helps us that gods power is supreme that satans ..tactics...........helps us to trust more on god and what he says will come true...........we cannot accuse god of these badness(james 1:13) because god is righteous(job 34:10)...its satans challege for all humans(job 2:4)... if we will stay faithful to god under difficult situations(job 2:9)...god started a beautiful paradise(genesis 1:28) which we can enjoy......but our first parents lost it..handed imperfection to us........and satan is ruling this wicked world(1 john 5:19)....which is soon to end (1 john 2:16-17)..........god will soon renew this place to a paradise like it was before(daniel2:44)..........what else can we ask for?(revelation 21:4)

Answer 4

People who want to judge God (make themselve higher than God and be the only god) won't understand the following. But that IS what God intended for them.

1 Cor 1:18-31

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
26 Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."
(from New International Version)

Those who don't need God, are not the ones that God speaks to.

Matt 9:10-13

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
(from New International Version)

Answer 5

The Holy Bible is THE book about which you ask. It is THE guide for humankind.

Answer 6

maybe he did write an awesome book - but his mortal editors haven't done their job very well I'd say.