Take a hard look at Death. Any spiritual or religious group that claims to be able to avoid death or lessen its effects is suckering around to latch on to your own deepest fears. Death and life are seamless parts of the same existence. No spiritual path can lead you to wisdom if it avoids either of these fundamentals, or tries to gloss them over with paradisiacal promises. Value the meaning, don't obsess over the Word.
Writing is a human invention.
First popped up about five thousand years ago on mud bricks in what is now Iraq. If you believe that words have absolute meanings you're likely missing the point. The earliest renditions are confused and full of deities being angry with each other, trapping humanity in the midst of their wrath. Anyone who claims to know the truth because of how they have interpreted someone else's writing has got it wrong by definition. Just ask the post-modernists.