If you did think that what do you think it was in hindsight?
2007-03-22 05:00:49 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I read the Bible because
1) I was in R.E. class (Religious Education class) and it was a "group reading" thing
2) My family was reading it
3) I felt like knowing what it said
I didn't feel a "call from God" to read it, though. I suppose some may then claim "well, you were never a Christian to begin with if you were never called by God to read his Holy word!!".
They can go suck lemons. I'm sick of the "no true Scottsman" argument.
2007-03-22 05:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I in no way thought God called me to read the Bible when I was young. God was an angry and wrathful God! My Father, being an Atheist, would not have a word spoken of, in His house, about God, nor Jesus Christ, nor that old unacounted for one, THE DEVIL, or satan, or dragon or original serpent, whatever man wants to call "Him". He didn't talk against religion, he just never talked about it. He told us girls that we could decide for ourselves when we were grown up.
As far as I was concerned, I considered myself a sinner, according to what all the radio preachers were screeching out, then later the televangelists, and now, internet.
Being an outsider, I had never even cracked the Bible open until well after I was married. Having an Atheist father, there was no Bible or religious articles, icons, or whatever, in our house. Nor any religious talk or disscusions what-so-ever. (That would be like flint, striking off Granite!!!) So - I had never heard of this Lord Person, nor would I recognize him if I ran across him, only the angry and wrathful God that spews out hate mail, via the communications system. I learned after I had married my ex, that his family were JWs.
After many years of constant pressure, I gave in, and became a JW. (It was a real eye opener.) I was like a blank tape, ready to be programmed, seeing I grew up in an Atheist household with no spiritual rain, or severe famine of the Word, so to speak. I Divorced the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1998 by the way, I wasn't Dis-fellowshipped.
So, in answer to your question, I never felt that god called me to read the Bible. My reasons are stated above.
2007-03-22 06:37:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question. I thought that God was leading me to follow him. In hindsight, I believe it was just me wanting to feel important and specifically created. It is an ego thing. After really taking a critical look at my belief system, I realized that there were too many inconsistencies and that I had to face the fact that I wasn't created.
That took me through a different path that lead to an understanding of what is important in life.
2007-03-22 06:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
though I don't really consider myself athiest, more towards agnostic, I read the bible because it is what most southern baptist families make their kids do. I knew even as a kid that I didn't believe what was written in the bible. I do enjoy studying religion though, though i don't believe any of them I do find points in all religions that are true, and that did occour in history. All religions are based on things that have happened, true events. Some interpreted them to be "miricles" or the hand og god, while others (athiest and the like) realized there is a rational explination and it is just a natural ocourance. All religions are bassed on true events, but many of their interpretations of these events aren't correct. There theory is if we don't know why it happens then God did it. Screw thinking for ourselves and trying to explain how things came to be, it is easier to say it was a higher power.
2007-03-22 05:14:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the Bible because I was taught that it was a blueprint for living a good life, and I wanted to be a good person and live morally. (I still do.) When I found out that it was an extremely poor blueprint, I was very disappointed, but it also set my feet upon the path to knowledge. It was then that my spiritual journey truly began.
I do not regret the time I spent reading and pondering the books of the Bible. Some of the more tenacious superstitions have been harder to unlearn than I expected, but everyone must struggle against something; it make us stronger.
2007-03-22 05:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read the bible because I was a believer. In hindsight, I'm glad I did it, because now I'm not!
2007-03-22 05:07:57 · answer #6 · answered by billthakat 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read the Bible so that I would know what it said. There are so many things that I heard but did not understand. I thought that I had to read the Bible so that I would be closer to God...I tried that, but never felt the holy ghost.
2007-03-22 05:11:17 · answer #7 · answered by country_girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm... is this a survey or a question?
Anyway I'm a Christian and I remember reading the Bible just for extra knowledge. I did not read it because I felt a divine intervention with God or anything.
2007-03-22 05:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by A. Roman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the bible because I thought that, if I did I would feel better about being a Christian and have more faith. It had the opposite effect.
An Agnostic
2007-03-22 05:03:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I read the Bible as a child because that's what I was taught to do.
And I the bible was what caused me to flee Christianity at a young age.
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." – Isaac Asimov
2007-03-22 05:06:41 · answer #10 · answered by KC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋