Perhaps if more people did that, even in an attempt to "prove it wrong", more would be blessed and saved by the Word Of God.
2006-08-31 04:50:04 · 32 answers · asked by redeemed 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A lot of time, which I don't have...
2006-08-31 04:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I have read the Bible and studied it. I studied it for many years and after doing so, I left the Christian Church. I began to have more questions than answers, especially reading the chapters written by Paul. I prayed for several years for God to show me what he wanted me to do with my life. I now consider myself a neo-pagan and I feel very close to God and I am happy.
2006-08-31 05:02:02 · answer #2 · answered by historybug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would take a friend to read and study it with me. I have to do all my other studying alone but I'd get more out of it if I could share my thoughts and ideas as I read and studied.Besides God 's word is meant to be shared with others.
2006-08-31 05:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by miss-snoopy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dudette,
Been there, done that!
This is my take on the 'good word'.
Everyone who, like yourself, becomes a 'holy roller' wants EVERYONE to share in what they've found. Cool, that's great, HOWEVER, in this vast world, you nor can the Vatican convince me that there is some dude up in the clouds that could allow this world head into it's self-destruction and not do anything about it.
C'mon - that's like letting your kids buy off that crack dealer, in fact you might as well give them the money to do so - and invite the dealer over to ensure they are buying it.
Think about it missy - NO GOD in his almighty infinite could or should allow what's going on to go on. Now you can gear up for the ALMIGHTY DEBATE about this issue, but seriously ? Why ?
In my experience, I found religiois fanatics to be exactly that - fanatics. They want to spread the good word about this being that makes them complete. Honestly hon, I don't have time to be preached at. I don't. I thought I did, but seriously, if you really got a good thing - then keep it. It's just not for me.
Now, get down on those knees (last time I did, I had the preacher try to stick his willy in my face - UH UH - never again, IN THE NAME OF GOD).
Pray sister, and pray hard - there are a lot of miserable souls out in this vast world.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts though.
a
2006-08-31 05:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by bga 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Studied the bible for myself for 7 years...I'd call that a fair try....found ALOT of contradictions and inaccuracies that my "pastor" couldn't answer or talk about without yelling and getting irate at me. It still amazes me how christians can read that stuff....study it....and STILL not see that it's a bunch of bull! Saved from what?....the horrors depicted in the bible?? they don't exist! True peace and harmony will happen when religious people back off and let people believe whatever they want to believe....I like the pagan saying....its simple....harm none! that has more validity than anything in your bible!
2006-08-31 05:03:29 · answer #5 · answered by Joeygirl 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have read the bible, it has some fantastic stories and can provide moral guidance but I didn't believe everything in it.
If I read a tabloid newspaper and believed it all I would be gullible and naive, literature has to be critically evaluated, not taken at face value and this applies to the bible too.
2006-08-31 05:06:39 · answer #6 · answered by Kate 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The direct intervention of God.
In other words a miracle.
You must be drawn to read it.
You must have that desire placed in you.
As it was with me.
As you go it is revealed to you that you are being taught by God Himself.
You start to see things that you never saw before.
All of a sudden you see that the Bible is alive and sharper than a two edged sword.
Then you get to see that you don't have anything to do with your own salvation.
It is accomplished by God Himself.
2006-08-31 04:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by chris p 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Though I am not a Christian or a Jew, I do read and study the Bible along with many other sacred texts including my favorite the Bhagavad Gita. I have many friends of various religions and I enjoy studying their sacred texts with them....though they don't always feel the same about exploring other traditions' sacred texts....but to each their own.
Peace be with you.
2006-08-31 05:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Youre wrong. Thats exactly the reason I am a non-beleiver. I read it and studied it, and saw it for what it was - stories, fantasies and explanations for the natural world around us, written by bronze age desert dwellers, and it has no practical value any longer.
See, your views are oppresive. You assume that what you beleive is the one and only trutth - and it IS NOT. So, more people would not be "blessed and saved by the word of God." If more people read it and studied it, they would disbelieve as much as I do. The fact is, you people congregate together in Bible Studies, forming lies to explain contradictions, and then you pass these lies on and on to others..... thats not truth. Thats deception.
2006-08-31 04:57:15 · answer #9 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I'm a pagan also but I have read the bible front to back, most christians can't say that.
I love the bible...I have 6 different copies...I also have a ton of other religious books on a ton of other religions...
I'm still not a christian but I have respect for the book and the religion.
Blessed Be!
2006-08-31 04:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I read it both when I was Christian and after I became an atheist. I reached the same conclusions. Reading it as a Christian actually led me to question further.
2006-08-31 06:59:34 · answer #11 · answered by phaedra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋