Why didn't Jesus write any of his teachings/messages down?

[red7]

Suerly if he wanted to spread his message he would have written something down.
Does this tell us something?

[jno]

written on what? Stuff like papyrus was expensive and used only by the rich. Carving inscriptions on to stone was a bit slow. Paper hadn't been invented, nor blogs. It's highly unlikely that a carpenter's son would have known how to write anyway. Christ was a preacher; talking to people was what he did, in the hope that they would then spread the word to others in the same way. It wasn't until after his death that his followers decided to record his teachings. That all seems pretty plausible to me.

[Octavius]

Well the bible includes a passage where Jesus wrote something inthe ground. Perhaps he did write documents, maybe they are hidden and we haven't found them yet, or maybe they were destroyed by the Romans, the scribes or the pharisees. Or were they taken by the disciples and used in their own gospels? Who knows?

[jno]

oh that's right Octavius, I forgot the woman taken in adultery... actually, I still find it hard to believe, and I note the Bible doesn't say what it was he wrote

[red7]

so the bible is the oldest case of chinese whispers....Mmmmmm.

[Octavius]

Of course it is, but maybe not the oldest. Most ancient stories and text are.

Did you just ask the question so you could make that point?

[dawkins]

it is rather strange that Jesus could apparently perform such miracles as faith healing, turning water into wine and walking on water yet according to Jno he quite obviously couldn't write.

Jesus is supposed to be god and god is supposed to have wrote the ten commandments way before Jesus but he hasn't wrote anything since. So when did god loose the ability to write?

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[sophie_1003]

Just because Jesus is the human form of God doesn't mean he could write as soon as he was born, he probably would have had to learn just like anyone else and being born to poor parents as jno pointed out, he probably never learnt. I'm not a Christian but I don't deny the fact that something like the Bible must have some basis in truth, even if Jesus couldn't work miracles he almost certainly existed and preached to others.

[Octavius]

Jesus was the Son of God, not God.

[Lonnie]

I agree with jno's last, but there are certain people on this site who would contest that.

[Cobra.]

He was not the son of God.

thats like saying he was the Son of The Big Bang

[Tatty Rollox]

....... and here at http://tinyurl.com/pk4ss is a Big Bang ....

[sophie_1003]

lmao at that picture!! sorry for sayin Jesus was God by the way, Been a long time since not payin attention in RE lessons!

[myselfness]

can i just say that
1- since the belief is jesus is the son of God he woulkd have known that his diciples and followers would write the bible later on
2- jesus was reaching out to the people trying to spread the word, and considering most of these people could not READ writing his messsage would have been pretty pointless at the time

[Clanad]

While not wishing to enter a lengthy debate, it's important to understand that in both the Old Covenant prophesy as well as the New Covenant fullfillment and testimony of eyewitnesses, Yeshua Ha' Massiach is clearly God, as is the Holy Spirit... John 1:1 states, unambigously "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him. Without Him was not anything made that has been made.
One of the many appellations for Yeshua was and is The Word.

Only one other thought... the culture of the middle east (as well as other cultures) was and still is largely based on oral transmission of facts and history. Totally unknown in the West, the ability to recite entire books accurately is common, even today. The spoken word carried much more power than we can accept in our culture...

[maxximus]

i was under the impression the native american indian culture for thousands of years used oral transmission for facts and history and this is why so much of their traditions, culture and language no longer survive today. and they did and still do live in the west.

[heathfield]

That applies to the ancient Brits and their Druids, too.

[chakka35]

Why all the fuss about Jesus' not writing anything? No-one who is supposed to have known Jesus ever wrote anything about him either. There are no ear-witness or eye-witness accounts of anything that Jesus is supposed to have said or done. The first mention of Jesus is by Paul, who never knew Jesus, in his epistles which started about AD55. By the time the first gospel was written (anonymously as they all were), in about AD70, everyone connected with the Jesus story would have been dead. There is no historical status to the Jesus story; believing is is purely a matter of faith.

[mycats]

and Dawkins God didnt actually write the 10 commandments, Moses wrote them down (carved them in stone) God just er dictated them lol

[Octavius]

According to the Bible, God inscribed the Ten Commandments into stone: "God said to Moses, 'Come up to Me, to the mountain, and remain there. I will give you the stone tablets, the Torah and the commandment that I have written for [the people's] instruction.'"

The Gospels state that Jesus is the Messiah "Son of God",