Why does God need a book to give us messages?

Question

I'm not trying to be disrespectful I really just don't know.
Couldn't God imprint any message he wants into our souls/minds?

Answer 1

or send us emails.. He must have a heck of a server!

Answer 2

He doesn't. Only the church going crowd worship the Bible. Look at many great men of God, Abraham, Noah, Enoch Joshua, all the prophets, the disciples, and Paul, none of them had a Bible. Some had minimal access to the Torah scrolls if they went in the synagogue. Churches use verses wrote by Paul to show that the Bible is the Word of God yet it was still being written and I am sure Paul and the others never considered their writings as inspired, perfect or the word of God. According to Revelation 19:13 it states that Jesus Christ is the Word of God which means that the apostle John never considered a book the Word of God. The only thing that has ever stepped foot on this Earth that is perfect, holy, without sin or flaw was the Lord Jesus Christ, everything else has imperfections including the Bible. To think that the Bible is the perfect infallible Word of God is to put that book at the same level as Christ which is breaking the 1st commandment, You shall have no other gods before me. Shame on those heathen pagan church goers.

Jesus before ascending said He would send the comforter (Holy Spirit) and the comforter would teach us all things. Jesus never said I will send you a book 400 years from now for you to read from, if you know how to read since most weren't literate back then.

Answer 3

God doesn't need a book. He founded a Church with the authority to speak for Him, and He speaks to us through that Church. The early Church had no book to go by. They had only the teaching of God's Church. For the next 1,200 years ordinary people didn't possess Bibles, since the printing press had not been invented, but they still learned the fullness of truth through the teaching of God's Church. In the past few hundred years the book has become available to the population at large. What a sad thing that people have abandoned God's Church in favor of a book compiled under the God-given authority of that same Church whose authority they have rejected, only to find that they cannot correctly interpret it. The result is clear - thousands of conflicting, contradicting manmade denominations, each teaching bits and pieces of the truth intermingled with all kinds of absurd ideas - the very traditions of men that the Bible warns us against. The book alone, without the authority of God's Church behind it, is a source of widespread confusion and division, not a source of unity and truth as it is in God's own Church.
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Answer 4

God does put imprints in our minds. BUt, the Bible is like a huge puzzle, fitting togehter one little piece at a time, to eventually form a giant puzzle, that is a picture of His plan for us. He makes it something to study, not just read. Often it even seems to contradict itself. NO. The Bible comes to us in layers, as we learn one thing, more is revealed, and on and on, as we are ready to receive it. Obedience leads to blessings and better understanding. The more we love God and obey, the more He will show us. We need His word with us so we know it, learn it, study it, and keep the words in our heart and mind, as the devil comes to continually tell us differently. The more we study and learn, the more the Bible becomes automatic thinking for us, making it easy to obey. Then, temtation isnt there to effect us anymore. If we didnt have Gods word, and the devil came and said, this is really ok, or thats ok, we could so easily just listen and go and do the wrong thing. But, when devil tells us stuff that are contrary to God, we instantly remember Gods word and we know that is wrong. Just use the word today to get to know God and have a wonderful life in Jesus, its the only way.

Answer 5

The main difference between Angles and Humans is Free will, if that thing was imprint on human souls they will be mere Angles, that's the reason of sending books

[2:53] Recall that we gave Moses scripture and the statute book, that you may be guided.

[6:6] Have they not seen how many generations before them we have annihilated? We established them on earth more than we did for you, and we showered them with blessings, generously, and we provided them with flowing streams. We then annihilated them because of their sins, and we substituted another generation in their place.

[6:7] Even if we sent down to them a physical book, written on paper, and they touched it with their hands, those who disbelieved would have said, "This is no more than clever magic."

[21:10] We have sent down to you a scripture containing your message. Do you not understand?

Answer 6

Pastr_Pat gave the worst possible answer. The bible is FULL of confusion. No i won;t quote any, but how often on HERE do you read different accounts of what a certain passage means. He didnt really give us a book. It was all the jackasses that wrote it who gave it to us. And by the way, it is VERY boring. Especially numbers. And deutoronomy. (sic) BORING!!!

Oh yeah, and cuz Books are a great way to spread literacy across the plains in those dark ages!

Answer 7

your parents obviosly did that task.
Right and wrong is simple with the ten commandments.
True or false we all need to know the basics.
The bible has many scriptures?
If you cant understand whats being told then thats not a big deal.
You and I have to know whats right and wrong.
Its easy to decide.
Take it slow and dont be serious about the big book. God will always be in any heart that decides to let.
Simple to be right, hard to be wrong?
David

Answer 8

There are way too many people don't listen to His book, the Bible. What makes you think they are going to listen to Him if they stood right in front of Him? The people had Jesus standing right in front of them, performing miracles beyond anyone's comprehenson, yet they still would not listen to Him.

I have faith in that "book" you speak of. It is life's instrction booklet given to uos by God. This book, the Bible, when you read it will transform you and give you messages that He instills in our souls/minds. From that, as your relationship with the Lord moves forward and continues to grow.It is then that you will hear Him speak dirrectly to your heart, because when you accept Jesus as your personal Savior, He then lives inside you always.

If you ever studied the Bible in all sincerity, you would know that. It is a beautiful display of His love for us. I praise Him for that. How bad do you want to hear the voice of Jesus?

Answer 9

He did. That's why people believe even when it's against the law.

The book just gives the details and quiets our own selfish, damaging messages we might send to our souls/minds.

Answer 10

God made us to have our own thoughts and to be able to controll our own thoughts sometimes he does give us messages but we dont realize it we shrug it off in denial. I think god gave us the bible to share his word with us but its up to is to believe it or not but i think its more belivable if we see or read it other than just thoughts in our head beacuase how would u know if they were gods messages or just our imagination or consious the world is very mysterious :)

ps: sorry if my spelling is bad lol

Answer 11

Excellent question

I propose this idea -

Give everyone the SAME dream at the SAME time.

Wouldn't that be much more successful than a book everyone gets a different interpetation of?

Or at least give us a book that when everyone reads it, they all get the same interpetation of it. That would truly be an inspired book

How hard is it for this god to do something that simple?