(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.
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