Just the title made me think lots of thought and research went into this thread.

Congratulations for actually discussing my post... oh.

The title, and the premise of my argument seem pretty valid. If an all powerful, all knowing god actually wanted to communicate it's likely he's not going to choose a method that practically makes communication impossible. Hence any text claiming to be communication from god is likely to not be.

Wikipedia lists at least 37 religious texts, only one at most can be true, that's less chance than a 2 outer, I'd say that's unlikely.

Yep. And since none of them distinguish themselves as actually being from god* how do we decide which one, if any is?

It's impossible to properly choose "God's" text from this list... if it's even in there at all.

So if an all powerful god actually wanted to communicate with us, it's pretty damn likely he'd stay the hell away from this method.

I think Joey is just peeved because if my post is correct it pretty much implies his religion is likely to be false. Sorry Joey, but I'm not trying to **** with you. This was just on my mind and I wanted to get some thoughts on it.


*Assumption. I obviously haven't read 37 religious texts. In fact, the only one I've read is the Bible. But if any of these texts did legitimately distinguish itself as being from god, we'd probably all be reading it right now.

This is not true.

There is a lot of 'circumstantial evidence' suggesting that (1) there is a God and (2) he is the God of the holy bible.

Some say 'his fingerprints are everywhere'.

If it were 'blind faith' only I probably wouldn't be a believer myself to be honest. Faith merely fills in the gap.

I would ask you what this evidence was, but it'd be a mega thread de-rail so I'll leave it for another time.

Don't keep it to yourself.

How could the creator of the entire universe also be responsible for the cut-and-paste-job known as the Holy Bible?

Ok, I approve of the thread derail. It's not like anyone was actually replying, so this is a step up .

I missed the last episode of LOST.... what happened?

They released a compilation of LOST scripts and email communication between cast members, and a group of fans now considers them to be "divinely inspired". The fans have been promised "everlasting life" if they will only believe that the characters are real.

It will probably not catch on unless a major empire sponsors the project, and does extensive editing.

Locke is the one true God imo. Jacob is a phony.

I've come to the conclusion my argument is actually kinda fallacious. I think it holds that if a god really wanted to communicate, he wouldn't use the "inspire a text" method. But a religious text from god doesn't necessarily have to be an attempt to accurately communicate.

So you could have a text that claims to be from god (and is) but isn't trying to definitively communicate a message in its totality. Or if a text claimed to be a definitive attempt at communication from god, this would be extremely unlikely, but this claim being false has no bearing on the claim of it being inspired by god.