Any Text Claiming to be from God is Very Likely Not

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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.

I distinctly did not claim it could not happen, just that it was not very likely. You're putting words into my mouth .

The second part of your post completely missed the point. I wasn't referring to the concept of writing down knowledge in general, just texts that do not actually distinguish themselves as being from a god. There's a TON of religious texts that claim to be from a god, but none back it up.

If a god wanted to pass his message to us via inspiring someone to write it, he could add in some knowledge that would back up the text's claim of being of divine origin. If a text that was written 3000 years ago scientifically described the start of the universe and that model seemed to be very accurate, that would add a lot of credence to the claim that the text was from god. So knowledge could still be passed by writing, which I was never arguing against in general.

But if he doesn't do this, it becomes impossible to distinguish between different "religious" texts and decide which, if any, is from god. So without doing this, the method of communication goes beyond freakin' terrible. Why would an all powerful god who ACTUALLY wanted to communicate use this method in this way? It's very likely it wouldn't and hence when a text claims to be a message from god and doesn't distinguish itself as being so, it's pretty likely to just be some random guy's writings.

Your assumption that the Bible is correct is a pretty big assumption. And I know this might surprise you, but people do not need contact with a god to write something and have it claim to be from god.

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Oh, now I get it, I thought you meant text messages like cell phones. That makes a lot more sense.

Yes, any cell phone message you receive claiming to be from God is very likely to not be. Old people don't like using technology.