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Lv 7

Christians: was Jesus able to read and write?

If so, why did he not write down anything himself?

Were the disciples able to write? If so, why did they not write anything down themselves? (You know, I'm sure, that the gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...)

If you say Jesus could not write, well, what kind of an omnipotent, omniscient god would that be? If you say he DID write but we lost it, well, what kind of omnipotent, omniscient god would allow that to happen while safeguarding the hideous stories in the Old Testament?

Truly, why did Jesus not leave humankind a written document in his own hand, in his own words?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Maybe because there really wasn't such a person?

  • 1 decade ago

    In that time the Jews had initiated a form of universal education for all male boys so it is entirely likely that Jesus and his male followers could read and write: further it is likely that Jesus was a Pharisee and as such had to have been well read.

    Jesus and his followers taught that Jesus would return during the life of the apostles. That being the case a written record would have been thought unnecessary.

  • 1 decade ago

    As a christian, Father God is in control when Jesus walked on this earth. The Bible is the real truth of what the world and the human race is going through, nothing is hidden in the old and new testament. The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, they wrote it themselves. Jesus did read the scripture when he was in a synagogue and the bible say that the Lord Jesus Christ did not write a thing. He uses his hand to heal the sick, stupid, lame, and so on. Read the word, it will tell you the truth.

    Source(s): Jesus is coming.
  • race
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    sure, He could study the Scriptures, because it says in Luke 4:sixteen-21. sure, He could write, because it says in John 8:6. The NT replaced into written after Jesus died, arose and lower back to heaven. No, Jesus did no longer write any books of the Bible, old or New testomony, although he's quoted interior the NT plenty. it is "in accordance to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" because of the fact Jesus chosen to no longer depart us with a e book. He left us with a Church, led by the Holy Spirit (see Matthew sixteen and Acts a million). The apostles Matthew and John wrote down what they theory replaced into maximum mandatory approximately Jesus. Mark is understood to have written Peter's attitude because of the fact Peter probable could no longer study or write, and Luke replaced right into a gentile self-describe historian who became a Christian and recorded Jesus' historic past as properly as he replaced into able, probable interviewing Mary appreciably on the grounds that he tells maximum of her tale. The pope is the servant of Christ. He prays plenty, teaches, analyze, listens to the Lord and does His terrific to share the Gospel with the completed international so as that each and all people will come to Jesus. He additionally has to fulfill with different international leaders each and every each and every so often, speaking out for social justice as often as he's able. i comprehend of no person and no company who's attempting to alter, eliminate or upload verses to the Bible today. the only physique that has the authority to make this way of substitute often is the Church that Jesus based (Matthew sixteen lower back), and that Church canonized Scripture interior the 4th century and hasn't replaced it on the grounds that. The pope as a individual does not have the authority to accomplish that - whether he theory God replaced into telling him to accomplish that, he'd nevertheless would desire to ratify the adjustments with the Magisterium. yet that doesn't ensue.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Literacy was widespread amongs Jews in the time of Jesus, and scriptures talk about him opening the scroll and reading from it.

    Why didn't he write things down? Several reasons that we know for sure:

    He was busy DOING his ministry

    Writing materials were scarce and expensive

    The standard of immediacy as a "proof" that we hold today did not exist in the ancient world (and still doesn't in some cultures).

    By the way, one of Jesus' disciples DID write down his own account-- John.

  • Rene
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I know Luke was well educated. He was a doctor, therefore he would be able to read and write. Scripture said that Jesus read the Torah in the Temple. So we know he reads. I'm assuming if he read he could probably write, too. He just never wrote any gospels. He inspired the apostles to do it for him.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. Scripture tells us that He read the scroll, at the book of Isaiah. I don't know that He wrote anything, but I imagine He would have been able to. Some of the Disciples did make notes on the margins of scrolls, and since they used the names of YHVH and YAHOSHUA, there was long discussion on how to dispose of those scrolls by the Jews. There are many questions. For some reason, He thought it best.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The jews back then were very educated.

    Jesus told them they would remember ALL things when the holy spirit came upon them and they did.

    He wanted THEM to write it down.

    Yet an early church father who was a historian named Eucebius talked of a letter Jesus wrote to someone who was sick and said he'd be there in a few days.

  • 1 decade ago

    He reads and writes quite well and has left thousands of messages and demonstrations in the forums, courts, schools, work places and the military of this age. You are not looking for the writtings of Jesus from 2,000 years ago but rather the Messiah of today and his name is James.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus read from the Holy Scribes in the Temple, and he wrote in the sand.

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