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Why did an omniscient,omnipotent & all good God communicate through a book? by kelvinkelvinkk(m): 7:26pm On Apr 22, 2021
This goes specifically to people who believe the Bible is the word of an omni-God. Books by their very nature requires interpretation. intelligent people could read a passage in the-same book and with very good intentions still come up with radically different interpretations of its meaning. Humans are flawed beings with abilities or perceptions limited to the subjective alone. Communicating through books would always lead to varying understandings and interpretation of that book.

If an Omni-God authored a book then that means that the book has an intended meaning, but that humans are bound to interpret it in different ways, many of them missing the intended meaning poses a problem.

At first glance this seems to only reveal a flaw in human nature, but upon deeper considerations it reveals flaws in any authoring Omni-God. As I’m sure you know , countless denominations of Christianity , and different sects of Islam and Judaism exists and vary wildly in practice, doctrines and beliefs due to varying interpretations of their holy texts. This inarguably leads to suffering. Wars between various sects of the-same religion and preventable suffering and I’ll give two examples.

1. Jehovah witnesses believe that the Bible forbids the ingestion of any blood including life saving blood transfusions. If they are right , that means they are obeying Gods will and won’t be punished for violating Gods instruction. While the majority of Christians who aren’t JWs are further separated from their Omni-God or even punished for not understanding the texts. If JWs themselves have misunderstood the Bible instead, most Christians are just fine while the JWs misunderstandings of their Gods word have them dying preventable deaths.
2. In the early years of Christianity, many sects of Christianity existed with radically different views of who Jesus was, some said he was God and calling him otherwise was blasphemy, other said he wasnt God and calling him God was blasphemy ETC. people who disagreed with themself based on misinterpretations called themselves heretics and this sometimes lead to violent conflicts among Christian sects which often lead to death among members.


There are countless contradictory interpretations of many holy texts out there resulting in very very different beliefs in the same religion. And many leading to the kind of unnecessary suffering I mentioned. If an Omni-God authored or inspired such a text, he either couldn’t do any better, didn’t know the suffering it would cause or didn’t care if suffering resulted.

If he couldn’t do any better communicating in a medium immune to misinterpretation then he isn’t omnipotent. If he didn’t know the suffering he would cause then he isn’t omniscient. If he didn’t care that suffering would result from misinterpretation then he isn’t all good or omnibenevolent. Anyway you look at it , you cannot consider the author of such a text to be anything close to an omni-God.

But of course there is a reasonable explanation for the flawed nature of sacred texts, they were written by human inspiration alone and no such God was ever involved. ��‍♂️
Re: Why did an omniscient,omnipotent & all good God communicate through a book? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:42pm On Apr 22, 2021
He Communicated in Every Reasonable Way, Talking, Dreams, Visions via Messengers, Signs and Finally Writing!

And all of this means are very much capable of being misinterpreted and Wickedly manipulated out of the intention of the Communicator!

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Re: Why did an omniscient,omnipotent & all good God communicate through a book? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:56pm On Apr 22, 2021
kelvinkelvinkk:

This goes specifically to people who believe the Bible is the word of an omni-God. Books by their very nature requires interpretation. intelligent people could read a passage in the-same book and with very good intentions still come up with radically different interpretations of its meaning. Humans are flawed beings with abilities or perceptions limited to the subjective alone. Communicating through books would always lead to varying understandings and interpretation of that book.

Your Work Reveals who you are (by their fruits we shall know them," show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are".

The intention "men's rea" of a Writer is revealed in his Work and a Writer of Truth generally clearly expresses his Intention for communicating exactly as you have just done above which clearly says that

"You are wondering why God Chose to Communicate by Writing when written materials can be construed out His Purposes, Meaning and Intention" and to insult God.

Which in Law and Literature, is Called the "Object Clause"

So you see, even you clearly disclosed your intention for writing!

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