15. That's the age I was when I developed scrupulosity. :(
I am not sure when my discomfort with the Bible started. I am guessing I was around 15? The Bible is really hard for me to understand, and that stresses me out ALOT.
Jews use other texts to understand the bible, Talmud, Zohar, mid rashes, haftarah, mishna, tanya to name a few. Even most learned Jews, in fact especially those will not attempt to understand it directly. As this work has been done by great thinkers and has been built over generations. I am not sure if such books exist in Christianity that are not of a new religion all together. I only know of ones that seem to deviate quite a bit and bring in other elements than those held in my understanding of catholic Protestant and other non-fringe iterations of Christianity. This isn't necessarily practical advice but I'd imagine an understanding of that historical period, ancient Hebrew and Greek, and if you dare, other religious texts, would be good places to start if attempting to understand on your own.
The only reason Holy Books survive is if they are ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. The Bible is SUPPOSED to be hard to understand.
It's written in archaic language, full of contradictions and aimed at an audience that has been dead for a couple thousand years. That's why there are five million versions of Christianity, each of which says that they have the only correct opinions about what the book says.
Yes, Exactly. And one thing I would also like to point out is every western religion have books that tell the same stories. They just tell them in different ways. These books are not historical. They where meant to be read and have there stories retold to inspire the masses who could not read. The masses who spent all day working just to survive. People who don't have the spare time to contemplate god or religion.
Even if god is the author it was man's hands who wrote the words. And men are flawed.
IIN to sometimes be uncomfortable with the Bible?
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I've been totally uncomfortable with the Big Bumper Book of Hebrew Fables since I was about 15.
Which was certainly not the aim of the brain-washers in charge of the religious school I attended, but there you go...
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15. That's the age I was when I developed scrupulosity. :(
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Jews use other texts to understand the bible, Talmud, Zohar, mid rashes, haftarah, mishna, tanya to name a few. Even most learned Jews, in fact especially those will not attempt to understand it directly. As this work has been done by great thinkers and has been built over generations. I am not sure if such books exist in Christianity that are not of a new religion all together. I only know of ones that seem to deviate quite a bit and bring in other elements than those held in my understanding of catholic Protestant and other non-fringe iterations of Christianity. This isn't necessarily practical advice but I'd imagine an understanding of that historical period, ancient Hebrew and Greek, and if you dare, other religious texts, would be good places to start if attempting to understand on your own.
The fault lies in the book, not you.
The only reason Holy Books survive is if they are ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. The Bible is SUPPOSED to be hard to understand.
It's written in archaic language, full of contradictions and aimed at an audience that has been dead for a couple thousand years. That's why there are five million versions of Christianity, each of which says that they have the only correct opinions about what the book says.
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Yes, Exactly. And one thing I would also like to point out is every western religion have books that tell the same stories. They just tell them in different ways. These books are not historical. They where meant to be read and have there stories retold to inspire the masses who could not read. The masses who spent all day working just to survive. People who don't have the spare time to contemplate god or religion.
Even if god is the author it was man's hands who wrote the words. And men are flawed.