# Does God write ALL books **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 23, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526 "2015-10-23T12:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/1 "2015-10-23T12:03:31Z")
If God is the creator and is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, doesn’t that mean all books are the word of god, rather than just handful of rather long winded, contradictory and outdated tracts that the religions use ? Isn’t god writing these very words, in fact, and all the words that may be used to reply ? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/2 "2015-10-23T12:08:15Z")
Yes, they’re Holy Ghost written. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/3 "2015-10-23T12:14:03Z")
Yes, but we fail to recognize it: [QUOTE=John 1] 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. … 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/4 "2015-10-23T12:22:37Z")
> [@](#): > > 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. > > … > > 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. Past tense. When did he stop ? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/5 "2015-10-23T12:55:46Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > Past tense. When did he stop ? He took a 15-minute break. You think even _he_ wants to fight union regulations? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/6 "2015-10-23T12:57:26Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > If God is the creator and is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, doesn’t that mean all books are the word of god, rather than just handful of rather long winded, contradictory and outdated tracts that the religions use ? > > Isn’t god writing these very words, in fact, and all the words that may be used to reply ? I’m relatively certain that the 20 or so fetish-porn short stories I wrote decades ago were not dictated by God, unless He is into…well, let’s not go there… ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/7 "2015-10-23T12:59:07Z")
if you can link to them I’ll let you know if they provoke utterances unto the Creator. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/8 "2015-10-23T13:03:30Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > if you can link to them I’ll let you know if they provoke utterances unto the Creator. I thought wanking was a sin. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/9 "2015-10-23T13:09:18Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I’m relatively certain that the 20 or so fetish-porn short stories I wrote decades ago were not dictated by God, unless He is into…well, let’s not go there… Why not? God had created everything for a purpose. Basically for us to learn, even if we are enjoying ourselves at the time, there is always a lesson going on, and it may not be the one you are thinking of at the time, but we are still learning even during those short stories. [QUOTE=2 Timothy 3:16] All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/10 "2015-10-23T13:12:38Z")
I must needs fear, kanicbird, that righteousness had nothing to do with them… ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/11 "2015-10-23T13:20:42Z")
Let’s hope not, for the sake of the Christians. Most of them haven’t even finished the one they believe he _did_ write. TLDR. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/12 "2015-10-23T13:43:22Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I’m relatively certain that the 20 or so fetish-porn short stories I wrote decades ago were not dictated by God, unless He is into…well, let’s not go there… Well, given the whole omnipresent thing, presumably he’s into everything. Even scat. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/13 "2015-10-23T13:49:09Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, given the whole omnipresent thing, presumably he’s into everything. Even scat. How could it be otherwise ? I think He not only writes my supermarket receipts, He is within them too. Carrots 75p Chick peas 56p Oilive oil £2.50 Hearken unto the Lord, verily TESCO is his Holy Land. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/14 "2015-10-23T14:36:34Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > If God is the creator and is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, doesn’t that mean all books are the word of god, rather than just handful of rather long winded, contradictory and outdated tracts that the religions use ? > > Isn’t god writing these very words, in fact, and all the words that may be used to reply ? Since you started this thread, why don’t you tell us what _you_ think? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/15 "2015-10-23T14:44:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I thought wanking was a sin. [Doesn’t look sinful to me?](http://www.animatedengines.com/wankel.html) ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/16 "2015-10-23T14:56:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Since you started this thread, why don’t you tell us what _you_ think? I thought I’d made myself plain. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/17 "2015-10-23T14:57:08Z")
If everything that is written is written by God and everything God writes is infallible then everything written is infallible. That includes statements like 2+2=5. It includes all works of fiction. It includes the Quran. It includes the works of atheists like Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. All of these are the infallible and true word of God. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/18 "2015-10-23T15:09:05Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > I thought I’d made myself plain. Not really. Do you really think God writes all books? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/19 "2015-10-23T15:15:14Z")
Didn’t books write God? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526/20 "2015-10-23T15:19:32Z")
Fun fact: when rappers say “Word!” it is actually the Holy Hip-hop Spirit speaking through them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-write-all-books/735526.md?page=2)