Gods message in book form

[The Sum of Awe]

No they're not. There's no air for them to breath.



If something logically cannot exist, then there's no doubt. The idea of any sort of Supreme Being, creator or not, still around or not, isn't logically impossible; it's improbable. The wises of Sages have frequently repeated that God cannot be known by intellect, and many have still said that Scriptures don't paint actual portraits of God, but rather just how he/she/its been perceived.

Do unicorns need air? They are magical... They can use magic to not have to breath at all.

It depends, it's just the counter-effect of its omnipotence allowing it to exist (depending on which kind of God). According to science, though, it is illogical by a lot.

 

[Riverwolf]

Do unicorns need air? They are magical... They can use magic to not have to breath at all.

Is that established? Unicorns could be nothing more than horses with single horns. AFAIK, they are a biological possibility, but one has never been found.

Once you bring indiscriminate magic into it, nothing becomes impossible, even that, while we were at the moon and found no atmosphere, there was, in fact, a magical atmosphere that they didn't detect that supports life that they couldn't see.

It depends, it's just the counter-effect of its omnipotence allowing it to exist (depending on which kind of God). According to science, though, it is illogical by a lot.

Only insofar as there's no evidence. The logical impossibilities only show up once God and His relationship to the world become detailed and described, and even then, some are more glaring than others.

 

[adamht]

In the case of those who view their book as the only word of God, if God/Gods did send a message in book form, how could any mere human write one that could compete with it?

The Quran:

And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad SAW), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful. (23)
Chapter: 2 Verse: 23

Or say they: He hath invented it? Say: Then bring a surah like unto it, and call (for help) on all ye can besides Allah, if ye are truthful. (38)
Chapter: 10 Verse: 38

 

[Oneatatime]

In response to the OP...

There are so many religious scriptures because people have fertile imaginations and while there are some common themes derived from commonalities of human society, our fears such as death, or simply belief in God which gives them the appearance of being guided by some overiding divine source but this is an illusion which arises from a desire for this to be the case. Within these themes there is boundless room for variation in character, plot and location to name a few things. There has also been a fair bit of borrowing as well.

Religious scipture is just as diverse as any other branch of fiction.