If a god wrote a book ...

[blue taylor]

Laozi was no god. His authorship is traditional, not historical. He himself was a historical person. And you understand it? It's translation into other languages can not even be done very well, because every translator comes up with different translations.

 

[Riverwolf]

I have a high regard for the tao teh ching; I have a copy myself. But we know who wrote the tao teh ching; His name was Lao Tzu and despite what some sects of taoism believe, he is not nor ever was a God.

Well... I understand that this is a bit dubious in terms of its historicity.

It's translation into other languages can not even be done very well, because every translator comes up with different translations.

Tends to happen with translations from written Chinese into English... and I'm talking about modern written Chinese, let alone the much older language of the Dao De Jing. I actually suspect that properly understanding the Dao De Jing would actually require learning to read the original characters.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

I think it would be protean - made to fit every single person who opens the book. Meaning it is something different to everyone - exactly what each person needs to understand, believe and accept in order to be "saved". It would therefore truly be perfect in every way - speaking to each person the exact words they needed to read. At the same time this unnatural state of the book to adapt to its readers would prove its supernatural origins beyond a shadow of a doubt. And the exceptionally specific and intimate knowledge contained within would inform the reader of its divine source.

 

[ronandcarol]

.... what would we expect to see in that book? What would we expect to not see?
As "a God", I'm speaking of a being most commonly associated with god: Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omni-benevolent.
IF such a being truly wrote a book .... what would it look like?

God did right a Book to us and for us already, its called the Bible, all of the Bible was inspired by God.
All of this Omni stuff you are referring to, it would be way beyond our Human minds to understand anyway, His thoughts are much higher than our thoughts! We should try our best to understand His Holy Words in the scriptures to the best of our ability, and if we are focused and trying as hard as we can the Holy Spirit will help us to understand and learn.

ronandcarol

 

[Thief]

I think it would be protean - made to fit every single person who opens the book. Meaning it is something different to everyone - exactly what each person needs to understand, believe and accept in order to be "saved". It would therefore truly be perfect in every way - speaking to each person the exact words they needed to read. At the same time this unnatural state of the book to adapt to its readers would prove its supernatural origins beyond a shadow of a doubt. And the exceptionally specific and intimate knowledge contained within would inform the reader of its divine source.

kinda like listening to God?......one on one?

I believe...that will happen

and I also believe God and heaven choose the participants.

if your mindset lacks the ability to 'hear'
why speak to you?

so it is written.....let those who have 'ears' that 'hear'....listen

 

[NewGuyOnTheBlock]

We should try our best to understand His Holy Words in the scriptures to the best of our ability, and if we are focused and trying as hard as we can the Holy Spirit will help us to understand and learn.

That is an ultimate cop out.

The topic of this thread was not, "come proselytize to this poor atheist"; the topic of this thread is, "What would YOU, ronandcarol, expect from a book written by god?"

Personally, I certainly wouldn't expect a book that utterly fails in historical and scientific accuracy.

Why do you accept a book that is wrong on so many aspects of history and science to be the work of an all-knowing deity?

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

.... what would we expect to see in that book? What would we expect to not see?

As "a God", I'm speaking of a being most commonly associated with god: Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omni-benevolent.

IF such a being truly wrote a book .... what would it look like?

Rarely is the expression of one’s concept of religion or Word of God, more timelessly profound and majestic than this quote from The Age of Reason:

“It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language.... It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”

—Thomas Paine