Why does God need books?

[Remté]

Establishing cause and effect on such a flawed and limited study as the human genome project is just not realistic.

Neither is asking why you can't have something when you don't know what it is.

 

[Salvador]

Establishing cause and effect on such a flawed and limited study as the human genome project is just not realistic.

Pretty much all forms of life are based on the same genetic coding.

 

[osgart]

Why? Give a reason as to why.

Well i dont think God exists. But if God would even want to relate to us, he would do it on our level with our understandings because there is enough good language in there to make it happen.

If God is good, he would certainly be able to relay some information to us with the words we use. Perhaps God would expound on the great virtues or something like that. I wouldnt think a God's message would have to be anything but simple and clear. If anything is good people are not beyond the capacity to know it. Thats why we are all responsible to what is good.

I dont think God would expect perfection from a human being. But to do Good, and know enough about existence, that language is there.

 

[youknowme]

Pretty much all forms of life are based on the same genetic coding.

It is called evolution.

 

[sun rise]

Why do kids need training wheels when they're learning to ride bikes?

Once people learn to listen to God's "voice" in their hearts, books are not needed any longer.

 

[youknowme]

Well i dont think God exists. But if God would even want to relate to us, he would do it on our level with our understandings because there is enough good language in there to make it happen.

If God is good, he would certainly be able to relay some information to us with the words we use. Perhaps God would expound on the great virtues or something like that. I wouldnt think a God's message would have to be anything but simple and clear. If anything is good people are not beyond the capacity to know it. Thats why we are all responsible to what is good.

I dont think God would expect perfection from a human being. But to do Good, and know enough about existence, that language is there.

I don't see how an all powerful god would be limited to our crude and ineffective language, unless that god was not all powerful.

 

[Subduction Zone]

"A detailed analysis that the human genome (map here) displays a thorough precision-type orderliness in the mapping between DNA's nucleotides and amino acids. Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. ...This includes the use of decimal notation, logical transformations, and the use of the abstract symbol of zero."
"Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing,"

This interpretation leads to the conclusion that the genetic code appears to be "invented outside the solar system already several billions years ago." This statement endorses the idea of panspermia.

Reference:

The “Wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code
Article in Icarus 224(1):228–242 · May 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.02.017

Vladimir Shcherbak Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Maxim Makukov The Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute

However, there are other possibilities too. The universe is built just for us in mind and exists inside a computer program ( The Matrix). ...some programmer somewhere wrote the genetic code for life in their model universe.

And it appears that the experts in the field do not take this seriously at all It has very few reads and very few citations. If a new idea is taken seriously it will get far more than 8 citations.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Pretty much all forms of life are based on the same genetic coding.

That represents as evidence for common ancestry.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

What would be the most efficient means for the most powerful being to send a message to us Earthlings?

I would be impressed with a magic carpet ride. But I am going to need an area rug for my chair and cooler.

For God, any means is possible including means I could not begin to imagine.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

My receiver is on the fritz.

Mine too.

 

[whirlingmerc]

Why does God need books (or other written text) to spread his word? Seems like an incredibly inefficient means for an all powerful being. Surely an all wise and all powerful God could have come up with something better. I mean such things as sacred text and oral tradition, that is so crude and clumsy it seems more like something people would come up with.

God does not need us to spend a message but he chooses to.
Jesus is the word made flesh and we are like the world made flesh again. It's incarnation.

God is sovereign but can work through frail imperfect people

 

[Dan From Smithville]

God doesn't. We do.

That is the best answer I have seen. Books are a human construct to capture and disseminate information.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

How about this?

Why not wi fi? A hot spot in our heads. That would be like telepathy, but the government could legally see what some of the stuff in your head is then. There would probably be a tax.

 

[Salvador]

I don't see how an all powerful god would be limited to our crude and ineffective language, unless that god was not all powerful.

There are places in base reality where life may have had billions of years to evolve beyond us Earthlings or post human futuristic intelligence could be several generations past us who are there ancestors.

 

[Salvador]

That represents as evidence for common ancestry.

This could also be evidence for shared cosmic ancestry.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

There are places in base reality where life may have had billions of years to evolve beyond us Earthlings or post human futuristic intelligence could be several generations past us who are there ancestors.

This is certainly possible. Humanity may have arrived late as an intelligence in the universe. I do not see how this does not just push back who the ultimate designer is and end up with that designer being a supernatural cause that cannot be determined by science.

We could discover that we are a program running in a machine made by another intelligence in the universe, but then the question becomes "where did that intelligence come from?".

 

[osgart]

I don't see how an all powerful god would be limited to our crude and ineffective language, unless that god was not all powerful.

Its only ineffective because of our limitations. The searching heart finds answers when they genuinely seek and are not satisfied til they get genuine answers that truly speak to them. God would have to work with our limitations, not God's.

I have a niece who created her own little language when she was small. Perhaps God would be open to learning things like that.

Someone once told me honesty is as deserves. I thought that was a wise thing to say. I wouldnt call that crude nor ineffective.

It wasnt til i was willing to see past my own faults, and biases before i found answers to anything. At a time i only saw what i wanted, and that was good enough.

But one day i really wanted to know what goodness truly was despite myself, and i got great answers to what i was closed off from hearing. I was challenged and it mattered to me. You probably have more answers then you think.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

This could also be evidence for shared cosmic ancestry.

It could be, but we only have the life on earth to make supported claims about. Until other cosmic denizens are found and their genomes are analyzed, that is all we can say with support.

 

[loverofhumanity]

Why does God need books (or other written text) to spread his word? Seems like an incredibly inefficient means for an all powerful being. Surely an all wise and all powerful God could have come up with something better. I mean such things as sacred text and oral tradition, that is so crude and clumsy it seems more like something people would come up with.

God communicates to humanity according to our level and capacity not His. Books and literature and words are the level we are at currently so God uses that medium to communicate with us.

 

[InChrist]

Why does God need books (or other written text) to spread his word? Seems like an incredibly inefficient means for an all powerful being. Surely an all wise and all powerful God could have come up with something better. I mean such things as sacred text and oral tradition, that is so crude and clumsy it seems more like something people would come up with.

Maybe it seems more like something people would come up with because God was reaching down to our level.
God doesn't need books or the written word and historical accounts, but humans do we because we are finite beings of very limited capabilities and understanding. If we could have handled something better God would have provided something else.