RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2018 at 7:07 pm by Whateverist.)
Damn, how do you guys remember this stuff? I was like in 5th grade and never read the bible. But I just thought God/Jesus was like the best ... fill in the blank: the best ______ . So I wanted to be/become worthy company for this best one and I figured that could only happen if I made my own decisions of the best thing to do and say and own it. I figured somehow God/Jesus would know everything I considered and after this life we'd talk about it and if I got anything wrong He/He would explain it in a way I'd understand or else we'd just have to agree to disagree. Never felt afraid of the guy/Guy. I mean, he was the best ______, wasn't he/He? We'd be tight.
So leaving involved no reconciliation with anything in the bible because I didn't know it at all. At some point it just seemed likely that as much as I had looked forward to a full accounting for my choices with the best _____, it wasn't and couldn't possibly happen. It just wasn't true. Me and my secret friend parted amicably.
I cannot even imagine what it would be like to break up with religion when that involved other people, some of them in positions of authority over me. Then having accepted the authority of the bible rather than something entirely internal .. that would be soooooooo much harder. Kudos to everyone who got out that way. My hat is off to you.
So leaving involved no reconciliation with anything in the bible because I didn't know it at all. At some point it just seemed likely that as much as I had looked forward to a full accounting for my choices with the best _____, it wasn't and couldn't possibly happen. It just wasn't true. Me and my secret friend parted amicably.
(March 20, 2018 at 6:44 pm)Cathooloo Wrote:(March 20, 2018 at 6:22 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Just out of curiosity, how were you instructed?
In the study group I was part of the Gospels, Acts and the Epistles, primarily, not necessarily in any discernable order. We were told it ought to be read that way, but it was never adequately explained why.
The OT was almost never brought up, unless 'opposing the homosexual agenda' was the topic de jure.
I cannot even imagine what it would be like to break up with religion when that involved other people, some of them in positions of authority over me. Then having accepted the authority of the bible rather than something entirely internal .. that would be soooooooo much harder. Kudos to everyone who got out that way. My hat is off to you.
