(March 28, 2010 at 10:30 pm)CHOOCHOO! Wrote: Suppose there exists an all knowing, all powerful, all loving god.
Suppose said god might want to communicate with its creation.
Consider the method of inspiring a person or a small group of people to write texts containing his word:
- The text created by this method does not contain information that legitimately distinguishs the text as being from the god, such as, for example, advanced scientific knowledge that was unknown at the time.
- As such, there is no way of distinguishing it from a text written by any random person.
- Hence, any number of people can write such texts and have them claim to be from the god, and its impossible to say which one, if any, is actually from the god.
- In addition the text can be edited to contain a completely different message, and the original version lost forever.
It is fair to say that such a method is an extremely unreliable way of communication, close to the point of being worthless.
For example, on Wikipedia there are over 30 religious texts listed. None of these distinguish themselves as being from a god so it cannot be decided which one, if any, is from a god.
It's practically impossible to choose "God's" text from this list... if it's even in there at all.
Hence if an all powerful, all knowing god ACTUALLY wanted to communicate with us, it's very likely he would not choose this method.
Therefore any text that claims it is from a god is very likely to not be from a god.
Any thoughts?
Because it is not very likely doesn't mean it cannot happen.
Anyways, how would knowledge be passed along without it being written down in one form another. During 1 a.d they didn't have many options. Also, if we assume the Bible is correct, then God was communicating with people by methods other than having people write them down. In order for the people to even be able to write anything down, they'd have to have had at least some form of contact with that God, unless God left a book outside of their door for them to read.
