Why didn't God write the Bible himself?

Question

WHy did God do it through very imperfect men?

Doesn't this really make it difficult to believe in God?

I think so.

Couldn't God have written it all in a supernatural fashion, like lazer etched on the moon or something?

Answer 1

because god doesnt care if you worship him.. or even acknowledged its existence... as long as you are good to yourself and everyone around you... thats all that matters.


also, if god DID write something... then believing in god wouldnt be necessary... it would be fact...
there would be no need for faith.


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and to the person above me... im sorry but i just cant agree with that... just because SOME people CLAIM that they wrote these things on behalf of god, shows nothing.
hell i could say this post i am writing now is on behalf of god... doesnt make it so.

Answer 2

God, if it was Him, is well known as an illiterate because at that Time everybody was also illiterate. No bladders or books in Genesis Eden. 'Kaballah' means 'oral tradition or transmission'. You are judging from an Era where most of
so-called First World unhabitants reads and writes. The Bible, and it's accepted by vaticanists, was written near the +IV Century and even then alphabetization remained a luxurial fashion for privilegiates and clerics. That's why the romanic, gothic and even renacentist churches show in their frontis and tympanums bas-relief statuettes in secuential art that are the roots for comics, and show the Holy Stories in a figurative and occidental-hyerogliphic way that's accesible to anybody .
In the XVIII Century (Illustration!) only a 20% of citizens, believers or not, could read the Bible. So, in the dark days of nomades, why God (if he was Him) should write the Bible if nobody could extricate it? He allegedly gave the Commandments Tables to Moses, but this is also a symbolic way to explain people's natural consciousness of sin, and his potential ability to discriminate Evil and Good.

Answer 3

Well if you think about it... if there is a supreme being it and it's perfect, it follows its word would be perfect. Language is, by its default nature, completely fallible and faulty - imperfect. Trying to put a perfect word into an imperfect language would probably be like trying to force a three dimensional skyscraper into a one or two dimensional space. So then the words of god could not possibly be converted to language and anybody who thinks he hears the voice of a god or is inspired by divinity is simply a delusional lunatic.

Of course there's also the problem where god doesn't actually exist and the whole thing was created in the minds of primitive men in straw huts, who wrote their ideas down, changed them over thousands of years and eventually kept a finalized copy of the confused mess the entire book had become.

Answer 4

I really like this question; however the answers here show an incredible lack of understanding. It seems that people have almost no understanding of God and want to blame God while mocking him all along.
The reason why God didn't just write it himself is because the story of life and godliness is about the interaction between God and man. It also had to be lived. There had to actually be an Adam, a Moses, a Noah, a Joseph, a Deborah,a David, a Mary, a Jesus Christ, and, an Apostle Paul. God wants thinking feeling children, not objects. That's why man can reason. We are not like planets or plants. He endeavors to love us in spite of and because of ourselves

Answer 5

LOL! You make a good point. It takes men, imperfect men, to say, "God TOLD me this" and then the rest of the imperfect men say, "Ohhh... Ahhh... then it must be so."

If someone did this now, they'd be stoned as a heretic. Look what happened to Joseph Smith (whom I think was a con artist as well)... he MAY have been telling the truth and while he does have followers, the mainstream religions say he was manipulating people and lying. Why are they right and his followers so wrong?

Why DOESN'T god just write the book himself and send it to us? Because that would not require faith and faith is his way of testing his followers. (At least that's what they'd have us believe.)

Answer 6

He did write the Bible Himself, he simply used men as his instrument to do so.

No, it does not make it difficult to believe in God - my belief is a gift of God, He is the One who gave me the faith in order to believe. It is available to all who seek and ask, but many do not accept.

Yes God could have written it all in a supernatural fashion, and He did with some of it - the 10 Commandments and the writing on the wall - but even when God walked the Earth as Jesus, did miracles right in the faces of the non-believers, they still wanted more proof - such it is with mankind - those who choose not to believe will always demand more proof - those who accept the gift of faith and grace don't need any more than has already been given..

Answer 7

isn't interesting to be conscious how the Christians have confidence their cult e book to be the only holy textual content textile from God, yet they do no longer properly known the different so referred to as sacred, holy texts. i will checklist all non secular books, why do the Christians think of their non secular texts is to any extent further useful than something? - Christians: Bibles, Christian apocrypha and Early Christian Literature Deuterocanonical Apocrypha - Muslims: Quran, Hadith, Sunnah - Jews: Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim, Talmud, Hebraic Literature: Extracts from the Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah - Hindus: Vedas: Rig, Atharva, Sama, Yajur, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads - Buddhists: Dhammapada, Saddharma Pundarika, Mahayana Texts, Digha Nikaya - Confucianism: Confucian Analects, Mencius, Doctrine of the advise, the great getting to grasp - Taoism: Tao te Ching, Chuang Tzu - Shinto: Kojiki, Nihongi - - Sikhs: Holy Guru Granth Sahib - Bahai: Kitab I Aqdas, Kitab I Iqan - Zoroastrians: Zend Avesta

Answer 8

A fisherman goes to the dirty water where he can find fish because there is definitely no fish in a clear drinking water. The imperfect man is like the dirty water where God can surely find the results He wanted.
God writes His notes on the minds of man, Man writes God's word on the tablets or papers but it also needed a man's mind to know and understand.

Answer 9

If God did write it all in a supernatural fashion, it would not allow us to develope faith. There would be no doubt at all in his existance. However, that would make us less of a person that if we had to grow and learn and develope faith and other qualities.

If you did everything for your child, that child would not learn all that they could or should. It is the same principle.

Answer 10

When you write is it really you? Or is it the pen in your hand?
Does ink come out of a place on you finger? Does it come out of a pen? If it comes out of a pen then is not the pen doing the writing and not you?

No the pen is just the instrument that you use to write. So is it not possible for God to use man as an instrument?

Why does it take a magical experience to even entertain the existance of God?

Answer 11

Inspired by God does not mean written by God. Do you see? I can love the idea of God and what he means in my life. I can write about it, but that doesn't mean that God wrote my paper. This means that God may not have written the Bible, but the authors of the Bible used their interpretation of God to put it into words.