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Someone on Facebook asked about God communicating and sacred texts, and I thought I would share the comment here.<\/p>\n

I think that, of all the possible ways that God might be thought to communicate, the notion that he communicated the precise words that he desired through human authors, without in any way changing their style or improving their grammar, and then left it up to religious communities to deduce and debate which texts were so inspired, is the least likely scenario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone on Facebook asked about God communicating and sacred texts, and I thought I would share the comment here. I think that, of all the possible ways that God might be thought to communicate, the notion that he communicated the precise words that he desired through human authors, without in any way changing their style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":20681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1140,5232,9854],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","tag-bible","tag-inspiration","tag-quote"],"yoast_head":"\nDivine Communication<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Someone on Facebook asked about God communicating and sacred texts, and I thought I would share the comment here. 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