A spiritual reason to relinquish the Bible

by JamesThomas 2 Replies latest jw friends

  • JamesThomas
    JamesThomas

    A child can see that the god portrayed in the Bible is repulsive.

    The same child standing in awe of the midnight sky is in love.

    I made a decision not to long ago to no longer embrace a book that openly and continuously disparaged God.

    The most important book to read is ourselves. Our own heart.

    JamesT

  • Sentinel
    Sentinel

    Hello There,

    What a beautiful observation. One that I too, saw many years ago. It happened for me, when I went to a funeral (before becoming a JW) and I knew the man had a terrible reputation and was really not a nice person. Yet everyone found only the good in him at his funeral.

    I thought then that the religions had it so wrong about "bad" people going to a burning hellfire. If mere man can see the good in all things, then I realized that god does too. And, that it is religion poluting everything. Too bad I was too young to see that JW's were just as wrong--even if they didn't believe in a burning hellfire, they believed in even worse things.

    Love and LIght.

  • gumby
    gumby

    -even if they didn't believe in a burning hellfire, they believed in even worse things.

    Yikes! What do they believe in that's worse than being tormented for eternity.........unless you mean preparing for a talk on the school!

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