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Wouldn't a God who loved the World and all the people give his rules to everyone, in their own languages? If one is to believe the Bible, God wrote the Ten Commandments and then put down his pen (chisel?) and left the job of writing the remainder to men. Why didn't he do the whole job himself? Why leave such an important job to unreliable and very fallible underlings? Consider how much killing and torturing has been done, by groups who believed themselves to be following God's will to other groups who believed the same thing, over the last couple of millennia. All this could have been avoided if God had written the holy books himself and made sure there was no ambiguity.
Consider how much better the world would be if all peoples had the
advantage of a faultless holy book in their own language.
And God could bring out new editions periodically as new
moral questions come up; things like cloning and the birth control pill.
DiscussionI put the question posed at the top of this page to Yahoo Answers. One of the replies I received was that "the men of the bible times were there to serve God, not the other way around". But surely an omniscient God could have done a far better job of writing his holy books than men could! And after creating the Universe I can't believe it would be too much trouble to an omnipotent God to write some rule books for us; after all, we are expected to believe that "he so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son". Wouldn't it be worth his trouble to avoid all the misunderstanding and wars that were fought between groups who all believed that they were the only true believers?
The few who said that the Bible is actually the word of God seem to be deluded to such a degree as to probably be beyond help, but I would point out that many of the Psalms were reputedly written by King David, and then who do they think wrote the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; the Epistles of Saint Paul; who were the Revelations revealed to? Even the word 'testament' (as in Old and New Testaments) is defined as a 'profession of belief', which requires a believer to record his belief. No, the Torah, the Bible and the Koran, are not the word of God. They were written by men who believed they were writing for God. Did God did not care enough to write the rules himself? |
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