Why didn't Jesus write the Bible?
Got an interesting question - the Bible is generally considered 'divinely inspired' or whatever, and obviously we can all agree that God did not directly write it. My question is this: Why didn't Jesus write anything himself? We have stories which were allegedly written about him and/or his followers, but no letters or love notes or postcards from the man himself. He was obviously literate, as he read the 'scriptures' all the time. I realize that this doesn't mean that he could write, but if he was God that would be a silly argument. This is sort of an extension to the idea that a perfect 'God' would be able to write a Bible that would never need translation/interpretation/faith (because he's perfect), but it goes a little deeper - if I am right about the Bible being a collection of stories, myths, and constant re-writes, then why wouldn't anyone have bothered to just make up a story coming from Jesus himself? It is possible that such...