I Read the Whole Bible

When I was a christian, I read and studied the bible thoroughly. At the time I honestly believed it was the word of "god".

What I found was just a collection of primitive myths and superstitions, corrupted versions of older religions. It isn't even internally consistent. It's full of factual errors and contradictions. Prophesies therein are so vague and open-ended they can be made to fit any event one wants to "prove" was prophesied.

In some ways, reading it was a waste of time but it did allow me to see how I had been deceived, brainwashed even, by christianity and gave me the incentive I needed to escape its clutches. Getting out of that cult was the best move I ever made.

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baptistcpl · 70-79, M

...i had much the same experience...but you might try reading just the first part of the new testament matthew mark luke and john when jesus was doing all the teaching and it is pretty simple and pretty powerful ideas for living life and loving others...i feel like god had 3 watersheds 1) garden of eden he and man walking and talking simple (then man messed that up and several books and hundred of pages of confusion) 2) 10 commandments 10 rules simple (man immediately cant deal with that simplicity and screws that up and more books and hundreds of pages of mans rules and confusion) 3) jesus comes sums up religion into a 1 simple statement love god, love your neighbor as yourself (man messes that up with more books and hundreds of pages of additional rules)...the pattern is god tries to keep it simple and we just can't deal with how easy it is just love him and love each other and ignore the church of big business that tells you different, takes your money and tries to control your life with their contrived controlling rules

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

@baptistcpl [quote].but you might try reading just the first part of the new testament matthew mark luke and john when jesus was doing all the teaching[/quote]
So you advocate ignoring nearly all of "god's word". What Jesus is supposed to have said was just copied from other belief systems so we may as well ignore the whole bible.

baptistcpl · 70-79, M

...well that is one way of putting it...i just found those 3 watersheds to be a simplified bible and simplified rules of being a good person...and you're right that is shared with other belief systems...and they, much like Christians, go astray when their leaders elaborate on gods simple truths, lol...trust me i feel your pain and don't share much of these thoughts with my christian friends because they just wouldn't understand