2007-04-10 08:42:46 · 23 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because very few people can comprehend legal jargon.
2007-04-10 08:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because "God" didn't write them at all. The so-called sacred texts were written and rewritten by men over several centuries, crossing cultural divides, including cultural differences, and just plain making mistakes in translation. Much of the Bible has been so revised from the earlier writings that is it hard to say what way really meant. Whole chapters were left out because they went against current thinking. The Bible is very much a work of myth and legends crafted together over many generations to form some kind of moral story, though I'm not quite sure what that story is, since the whole thing doesn't make much sense to me.
2007-04-10 15:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by meg3f 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ha. Depending on the lawyer it might have turned out even more ambiguous - if that's even possible.
2007-04-10 15:47:28 · answer #3 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God said to Adam "Do not eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the day that you eat thereof you will die."
Don't eat the fruit from that tree over there, you see it? Yes that one... you can't get any clearer than that, and yet Adam and Eve ate it anyway.
You see the problem isn't that God cannot express himself clearly, the problem is that people don't want to hear and obey what God has to say.
2007-04-10 15:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are only ambiguous to the limited and finite mind. As you seek God, he leads you into an understanding that cannot be understood by the human mind.
2007-04-10 15:46:30 · answer #5 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work....<>< <><
2007-04-10 15:55:40 · answer #6 · answered by Barbara J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've apparently never read a legal document. Try getting a lawyer to tell you how to tie your shoes. They can confuse anyone.
2007-04-10 15:48:55 · answer #7 · answered by bugs280 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lord uses the foolish people to confound the wise.
2007-04-10 15:50:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean you haven't met any lawyers yet who act like they are God?
2007-04-10 15:48:55 · answer #9 · answered by Janet L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't hire anybody.
When the Monks copied it (pre-printingpress) they messed it up so much it no longer makes any sense.
It's sitll some of the best fiction ever written.
2007-04-10 15:48:20 · answer #10 · answered by fairbetsy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Luke 10:21: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have carefully hidden these things from wise and intellectual ones, and have revealed them to babes."
2007-04-10 15:57:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋