Here we have the alleged son of god on earth. He wants to spread the message of salvation to everyone. So he chooses to talk to people, but never write anything down, nor dictate anyone write anything down? I've always wondered why god in flesh wouldn't write the message down, that way we could have as little confusion as possible.

in before "omg we are a better species from that confusion ldo"

To be fair, he couldn't write it down at the time because he was a lowly carpenter who didn't have access to pen and loose leaf like the Pharisee's of the time did. Jesus' words were instilled into the minds of his disciiples who pondered the word of god (and also chilled waiting for his return which he said would be in this generation but also said nobody could know when his return would be) for 40 years after he died and finally revealed his true message though the gospels.

is this a serious response? he's GOD! but cant write? he can walk on water, raise the dead, but cant write? no pun intended, but jesus fkn christ.

besides, this isnt any sort of answer, as i knew someone would try and say he couldnt write, which is why i added "nor dictate anyone write anything down?" if he really couldnt write (which makes no sense) he still could dictate the exact words he wanted written down to one of his many disciples.

Not true. Not just a lowly carpenter, the Jesus depicted in the Gospels was most definitely literate (as all rabbis would have been). Either he wrote things down and they were lost, or he didn't consider it important to do so. Since he was more likely interested in political and social change from the bottom up and appealed largely to an illiterate audience, he probably didn't think it necessary to write things down that would have only been readable by the elites of society, whom by all counts he seemed to disdain.

Of course, if he really was God and meant for his message to resonate through the ages, it does seem pretty odd he wouldn't have written things down.

haha wow it must be bad in here if you guys couldn't sniff that out.

he did write.

he wrote as god, through the minds of men, in the form of the bible.

why would he write twice?

Because, that way, people can say, "But they were just other people, why the hell would they know?" If I was God, and I was the only thing that could offer you salvation from eternal damnation, and my moral code would make everyone's life better, I'd write it on a goddam floating mountain with trees growing out of ice caps in a lake of lava.

This way, it's a book. A book anyone can write after a so-called revelation, or exagerating the status of someone who, by all means, if he existed, was an amazingly progressive philosopher, but was probably not the son of God (and God and the Holy Spirit).

The real question is, if you have a really important statement about life and happiness, why write it through a third party in an ancient book that has never since been updated?

you arent god afaik, so why does it matter what way you would have written it?

if i was god i wouldnt have written it at all because i cbf and would be banging hot angels and ****

You. Have. No. Idea.

Jesus was the front man, to what basically is Pauls religion.

Having said that, Jesus had some real good things to say. Only thing is, it has been twisted and intrepetated to suit.

exactly! being God and all, he easily could have foreseen what sinful and imperfect men would do to his word. so again, why not write the stuff down himself?

if youre saying your post was sarcasm, then ya...its bad here, cause theres really no way to differentiate your post from a true believers post. there are plenty of posters around here who would espouse exactly what you wrote above.

next time add a or something

Keep in mind that the Christian god could have written a billion page book in less than one second.

He didn't write because he was not God or God's son or else, he was a wise and smart carpenter, but not visionary enough to foresee that his teachings will be the great winner of the religions roulette.
Plus, he would've been redundant, because the previous Black Sea scrolls had use to contain the very same doctrine he later adopted and spread.

As a matter of fact, the father of occidental idealism, Socrates didn't use to write or read. He used to say that he despised written words because they tell about old stuff. Lucky for us, there was Plato who wrote all his dialogues in the Agora and he did it better than Socrates would have been ever able to.

well obv.

but i wanna know what christians think about their messiah who didnt think it a good idea to write anything down.

you want, you want, you want, everything you have not got, yet you don't want what you have

ok

so you cant answer my question, and in the face of a problem with your faith you choose faux-wisdom/denial. does that come straight out of a handbook or something?

also, a good translation of this would be "i have the secret knowledge, and you dont."

dragonystic,

Your first reply was ok, you later then must of thought no, no it's not ok and you edited it.
Anyway, i will answer your questions, so you can be at peace with my rant to your request of wanting or demanding of christians to reply to your requests.
I do not follow any religion, I do not have any "secret knowledge" that you don't have as well.
I am here contributing or trying to contribute to the very fact that there is alot that we don't understand and spiritual matters are being explored.

Jesus wrote in the sand ---when the women was caught in adultery

what did He write==Old Testament tells us the names of those who turn their backs on God will be written in the sand

ya, threats work well

Why doesn't God just send everyone a personalized text message?

Exactly. In the OT God wrote through the minds of the prophets.

Jesus did likewise through the minds of his followers.

John MacArthur explains that is the divine modus operandi in this book:
http://www.christianbook.com/Christi...FQxinAodHlRRqQ

He Twitters in Spanish God dammit - http://twitter.com/jesuschrist