What content would convince you that a text was written by a higher power?
2007-06-12 05:58:41 · 23 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would want the book to contain a complete message of peace, Not a half an half mix of Intolerance and injustice and peace and forgiveness. I would want it to make logical sense, I would want it to be able to be back up by complete historical and archaeological evidence. I would want it to be universal, not just one part of a million piece religious puzzle. I think if "god" really intended to have his creation be saved than there would be no alternative messages anywhere.
2007-06-12 06:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well assuming an all knowing, all powerful God exists, it would be trivially easy for God to write a book that would provide strong evidence of God's existence.
Amazing scientific knowledge would certainly help (note the Bible screws up so many things in this area). If we find a book now dated to 5000 BC which has a unifying theory of physics contained in it, that would certainly be strong evidence for God or some other super advanced being!
Moral teachings that are better than bronze-age herders would help (the morality in the Bible is truly horrible by today's standards)
Text which is so precise and profound that NO ONE would argue over the interpretation of the words. Also, as we are assuming God is all powerful and all knowing, the translations of this text also would be precise and profound with no confusion over interpretation.
Unfortunately for you, question asker, the holy books out there now are riddled with inconsistencies, flat out wrong scientific claims and extremely poor moral codes.
2007-06-12 06:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The very fact that the words and logic of a work can be questioned by me prove that they were written by an imperfect person. The book by God would deliver his message in so perfect and divine a manner that it would be impossible to deny, misconstrue, or ignore it. Indeed, this is the ONLY way for God, who is a perfect being, to pass messages along, for any other method flies in the face of his perfected nature.
2007-06-12 06:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. A higher power would be unlikely to use such a medium as a means to communicate. This is especially true of an entity which is reported to have sent representatives to Earth on numerous occasions to kill, deliver messages, and perform other errands on hundreds of occasions.
2007-06-12 06:06:32 · answer #4 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No content would convince me. At all. You can add all the content you want, its still just a fictional book (read the book Misquoting Jesus).
However, if god had a book signing tour with Barnes & Noble and did some explaining and a few majic tricks, that would certainly help!
2007-06-12 06:03:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
*When God wrote it 2000 years ago*
One day, you humans will find out that the earth is one of exactly 187,370,506 planets, and that you are not the only intelligent lifeform in the whole galaxy. Yes, galaxy. See that big black thing in the sky? It's called space, and it's massive. I made it so you all would feel puny and obsolete whenever you have your petty arguments about how your sword is bigger than his.
BTW, you're being held down to earth by a gravitational pull, and you rotate around the sun, not the other way around.
2007-06-12 06:02:26 · answer #6 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Lets get this straight - the idea of God itself doesnt sit right with me. But, for sake or argument...
It be nice if maybe it was factually, scientifically correct. Say, had the right value for Pi and classified animals correctly (whales arent fish, Bats arent birds) and didnt say things like rabbits chew cuds, which they dont and never have. That, along with some actual spot on, word for word propehncy, rather than the BS interpretation done now.
2007-06-12 06:04:24 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would expect the message to be simple and consistant, no matter what language, dialect, etc...
I would expect that there would be absolutely no inconsistancies, and no room for interpretation.
If god was limited in communication by our variety, then it would plainly say that and tell us how to read it to interpret it precisely/correctly.
I would expect that god would anticipate our skeptical nature, and would include irrefutable proof. Again, this proof would not be open to interpretation or self-fulfilling prophecy.
Beyond that, I really wouldn't have any other expectations.
2007-06-12 06:11:24 · answer #8 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
God has never written a book. The Bible is a fabrication of man.
2007-06-12 06:07:31 · answer #9 · answered by gopher646 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist, but I must say that God wrote no books (including the Bible)--men did. Then, through translations and various religions--a lot was lost.
Remember that the Bible was written way, way after the fact...
2007-06-12 06:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋