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Why Didn't Jesus Write?
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RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write?
(January 18, 2017 at 3:26 am)Godschild Wrote: Since the OP is about Jesus writing and all the atheist here turning it into Jesus not being able to write and you tell Drich that the story is best understood that the people left because of what Jesus said. Why then doesn't the literal interpretation of Jesus writing mean He is writing.  something intelligent on the ground. I'm not trying to defend either view between you and Drich, all I'm saying if you want to be so literal about Jesus's words causing the men to leave then why not accept that literally Jesus was writing intelligently on the ground. The scripture does say writing and not scribbling.

I take no issue with the notion that Jesus writing on the ground would indicate that he was literate. The OP asks why Jesus didn't "write the information himself," by which I assume it is asking why he did not write a gospel of his own. From there the discussion went towards the question of his literacy.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Athena777 - December 13, 2016 at 11:16 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 13, 2016 at 11:21 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Crossless1 - December 13, 2016 at 12:32 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by drfuzzy - December 13, 2016 at 4:24 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by brewer - December 13, 2016 at 11:30 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 13, 2016 at 11:33 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by AceBoogie - December 14, 2016 at 8:58 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 10:25 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 13, 2016 at 11:36 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by brewer - December 13, 2016 at 11:39 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by The Grand Nudger - December 13, 2016 at 11:53 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by brewer - December 13, 2016 at 2:07 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 13, 2016 at 12:39 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 13, 2016 at 12:46 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 13, 2016 at 12:42 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 13, 2016 at 1:04 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Athena777 - December 13, 2016 at 1:34 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Crossless1 - December 13, 2016 at 1:49 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 13, 2016 at 1:44 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Aegon - December 13, 2016 at 11:22 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by robvalue - December 13, 2016 at 1:51 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by chimp3 - December 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 13, 2016 at 2:26 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Cecelia - December 13, 2016 at 6:15 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by GUBU - December 14, 2016 at 6:47 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Casca - December 13, 2016 at 6:16 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 13, 2016 at 6:20 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Cecelia - December 13, 2016 at 10:00 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 14, 2016 at 12:37 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Cecelia - December 14, 2016 at 11:26 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by The Grand Nudger - December 13, 2016 at 11:35 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 12:33 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 14, 2016 at 10:04 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Divinity - December 14, 2016 at 1:41 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by The Grand Nudger - December 14, 2016 at 1:44 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Divinity - December 14, 2016 at 2:31 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Fake Messiah - December 14, 2016 at 4:08 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Crossless1 - December 14, 2016 at 8:43 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by rado84 - December 14, 2016 at 9:11 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by ukatheist - December 14, 2016 at 12:55 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Fake Messiah - December 14, 2016 at 2:58 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 3:29 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Fake Messiah - December 14, 2016 at 5:23 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Crossless1 - December 14, 2016 at 5:37 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by emjay - December 14, 2016 at 10:02 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 5:34 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Fake Messiah - December 14, 2016 at 5:49 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 6:00 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Drich - December 14, 2016 at 6:21 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Crossless1 - December 14, 2016 at 6:25 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 14, 2016 at 6:55 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Faith No More - December 14, 2016 at 8:58 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 14, 2016 at 6:55 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Drich - December 15, 2016 at 8:33 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 15, 2016 at 10:04 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Drich - December 15, 2016 at 3:02 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 15, 2016 at 4:01 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Godschild - January 18, 2017 at 3:26 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - January 19, 2017 at 7:54 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Godschild - January 19, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 14, 2016 at 7:45 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 14, 2016 at 9:28 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Tonus - December 14, 2016 at 11:07 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by GUBU - December 16, 2016 at 5:45 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 14, 2016 at 11:22 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 14, 2016 at 11:47 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by robvalue - December 15, 2016 at 9:48 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 15, 2016 at 12:43 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - December 15, 2016 at 5:22 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by robvalue - December 16, 2016 at 12:12 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 16, 2016 at 12:54 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Cecelia - December 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by ukatheist - December 16, 2016 at 12:46 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 16, 2016 at 12:58 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 16, 2016 at 1:00 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by robvalue - December 16, 2016 at 1:52 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by vorlon13 - December 16, 2016 at 3:02 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by downbeatplumb - December 17, 2016 at 8:26 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by ignoramus - December 20, 2016 at 4:32 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Little lunch - December 19, 2016 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Minimalist - January 18, 2017 at 11:31 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Cyberman - January 18, 2017 at 8:11 pm
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by Wyrd of Gawd - January 21, 2017 at 12:41 am
RE: Why Didn't Jesus Write? - by The Wise Joker - January 29, 2017 at 2:09 am

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