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For very good reasons, many of you find the Bible to be rubbish and don't care to spend time thinking about it. However, I know some of my fellow agnostics and atheists have an interest in the Bible and in the history of its development. Have any of you with an interest in it gone so far as to join a Bible study group? If so, how was it? Boring, creepy, enlightening?

GarytheGondolier 6 Apr 19
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I grew up going to church everytime the doors opened. I have posted or commented on agnostic here my story of leaving christianity and the biblical studies I have done personally not in a group setting since leaving. To answer your question as a former Christian attending a bible study I would say boring could be used to describe the experience in part. The few bible studies I have attended as being former Christian would be more so described best as saddened or disheartened.

There is a lot of text and themes to weed thru, there is the slight differences in language that gets lost in translation and there are those that write reference materials like translation dictionaries that has perhaps bias or for brevity and doesn't exactly explain the original text meaning and usage.

Here is a synopsis I will try to make to see if you think you could understand it from the biblical text. With out debating truth or fiction of Jesus character, Jesus character would be Angelic lord of host lucifer the devil that was a creation of the old testiment people-Gods by way of them speaking Jesus character into existence. Biblically it indicates it is the "Lord" that is Egyptian and now bringing about the requirement of identification for taxation and government control, commercial capitalism wage slave labor being enforced by the Masonic lodge secret religion racist devil worshippers since their freedom from England July 4th, 1776 to rape this land from the original indigenous inhabitants calling them such but not limited to Mexican, Indian and native American.

Word Level 8 Apr 19, 2020
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I was in Bible study groups as a young man when I was still a believer, and as a Mormon Priesthood holder ran scripture study for the priesthood, which included the Bible and all the Mormon fan fiction (all three books of it).
I have read widely in to the history and diversity of the various Bibles after becoming atheist and is has only gone to prove to me further how corrupt and twisted the "Good Book(s)" is.
Variations in translation, canon, interpretation etc have simply proven to me there is no such thing as the one true Holy Bible, it all depends on where you were born as to which religion or denomination is more insistent that it has the "right" one.

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