(More writing by Alex Caldon can be found in his book The Quest For Truth: On Finding The Grail, which is available from www.thequestfortruth.co.uk. Some people may have the book FREE of charge! Happy Questing...)

Yes, anybody can write the word of God: and no it isn’t blasphemous to try.

As we shall see, the process of writing God’s words is quite straightforward; people who have dedicated their lives to living by Holy Scriptures need have no fear of this idea. If a religious scripture is true, then re-writing the word of God from observable truth will simply result in creating an exact repetition of that scripture. It is allowable for any of us to explore in this way and we should not let ourselves be put off by any religious person who argues otherwise.

So, let’s put the scriptures to one side for the moment, and begin writing the word of God from scratch, based on what we have actually witnessed to be the truth. For the word of God is Truth. Or put another way, Truth is the word of God! There have been many people who have come to realise this, the most noteworthy being Mahatma Gandhi - one of Gandhi’s most widely used quotes is “God is truth and truth is God”. Gandhi allowed himself to move beyond the scriptures and take his learning directly from God; he took his learning from what he observed. Gandhi was brought up as a Hindu, but he allowed himself to correct the Hindu writings. For example, the most famous of the Hindu scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita, asserts that since we are nothing but spiritual beings, and our souls can never be destroyed, then it is acceptable to kill. Gandhi realised the error in this and did not accept this teaching. On the contrary, Gandhi realised non-violence is the correct way to bring about a healthy world, and he amended the Bhagavad Gita accordingly. Like Gandhi, we too can follow the truth, or God, and like him we can write the word of God.

Let us start with some simple truths. Consider what is required to make a seed grow into a plant. The seed at first requires water. We know this is true as if we deny a seed water, it remains a seed. We can then work out what else is required by providing it or denying it. A plant will die without soil nutrition. A plant will die without sunlight. We already have enough truths to write some words of God:

“To grow a plant from seed we must provide the seed with water, nutrition and sunlight.”

This sentence is therefore the word of God. It is true.

In the same way we can, if we choose, write many volumes of the words of God. We can delve deep into the mysteries of the Universe and record what we find, but so long as we stick to the truth then our writings will always be the words of God. It transpires that if we study what is in front of us and record it in this way, all that we are doing is being good scientists. For science is the study of God! Science has many facets, but the common thread for all science is that it is the study of truth.

Let’s take another example from one specific area of science – psychology. We can look closely at the truths of human behaviour and thinking, and so long as what we observe and record is true, then it is still the word of God. Let’s look at one branch of the science of psychology – group dynamics; the study of the behaviour of people as they interact with each other. More specifically let us take the example of family therapy. There are many families which are dysfunctional. Such families can be observed to be stuck in a cycle of hurting. Dad hurts daughter, daughter hurts brother, brother manipulates mother, and so on. A family therapist is quite adept at accurately observing the truths of a family’s behaviour, and through experience the science of family therapy has found ways to bring a dysfunctional family towards more healthy behaviour. It is found by scientists that injecting positive dynamics into the system will eventually heal the family. Each family member is encouraged to be positive towards the other members. For example they might be asked to state explicitly what they like about the other members. When they have been hurt, each member is encouraged not to retaliate. In other words, modern scientists have found it to be true that turning the other cheek can heal rifts between people. Which is exactly what Christ worked out some 2000 years ago! By following the truth, modern scientists have simply re-written part of an ancient religious scripture. What Christ said so long ago about turning the other cheek was without doubt the word of God, and words written on the science of family therapy, are also the words of God.

The question may now be in the reader’s mind: does is this article intended to be the word of God? The answer to that is yes. Whether or not this work actually succeeds in being the words of God is another matter completely. It is the intention that this is a work of truth, and if all of the writing in this article is true, then it is the word of God. But this study was written by a human, and humans make mistakes, and so there is every chance that this writing may contain some falsehoods - these parts will not be the words of God. The reader must make the judgement of which parts of the article are true. But to make the right assessment the reader has to find the courage to look objectively at some new information, and perhaps to change their mind.

Following the truth is not an easy task; we are all so scared of admitting we have been wrong. Which is curious. The closer one gets to the truth, the greater becomes the challenge. And the challenge is to embrace change and to grow.

"Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw." Jack Kerouac