Why wasn't Jesus as an author of the Bible?

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posthuman

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The other issue is that in your description of the gospels each disciple adds a different "voice" but, if as you assert, it is really a single voice (i.e. the voice of God), then again, why have different voices to begin with?
have you ever heard the idiom, "His voice was like the sound of many rushing waters" ?
 

mcubed

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I honestly think this is a great question. When I read it the first Scripture that popped into my head is John 5:46-47, If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?". (Y-shua speaking).
My opinion is, we believe the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of G-d by faith. It’s all by faith. Would we believe it more if Y-shua sat down and wrote it with ink and parchment? I honestly don’t think so. It would still be by faith, because if Y-shua wrote Himself I died and rose again now believe in me because I am G-d, it would be the same response as eyewitnesses saying it. He is either a liar, crazy, or it is true.
 
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Magenta

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have you ever heard the idiom, "His voice was like the sound of many rushing waters" ?
Is it idiom? I thought that was Scripture :)

Revelation 1:15 (KJV 1900)
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And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in
a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

I guess I just never thought of "idiom" as a genre before :D

 

Angela_grace

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My thought is if Jesus had written something then we humans would make what Jesus himself had written as the best, the book to read, no other book in the bible could compare to it. I don't think that's what God wanted. He wanted to use humans and speak through them and all the books would hold the same weight because God, Jesus, did inspire all of them. Just my thoughts on this subject.
 

posthuman

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have you ever heard the idiom, "His voice was like the sound of many rushing waters" ?

alright, maybe '
idiom' isn't the right word. but His voice in the vision is described this way - as like 'many' waters. yet it is a single voice.

and His creation - isn't it full of fractal pattern? the same patterns, repeated at many scales, through many individuals, but all a single pattern.

and His scripture - doesn't it relate the same qualities of Him, many times, through many prophets, and by type through the lives of many of those His mercy is on?

the point here is that He has demonstrated Himself as one Spirit through many that His Spirit rests upon. that He has revealed Himself to be the same through many ways - as if with one voice. so it's not uncharacteristic of how He has dealt with man in order to bring His revelation to him, for Him to have communicated the gospel of His covenant through a handful of servants each with their own single voices, presenting as one unified voice the Word of His testimony.
 

notmyown

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fractals are beautiful. i don't understand the math, but they're lovely to look at.
God's work is lovely to look at, all of it!