The big Christianity thread.
I received a DM saying,

“You state you are not a Christian, but how come you know so much about the Bible and Christianity?”

So here goes. I was raised Christian. My parents were very Christian and they read the Bible literally.

They were God fearing people and so was i as a result. They believed the Bible was the literal word of God and so did I. I believed that God was wrathful because it was in the Bible. I believed that God committed genocide of the Canaanites because it was in the Bible.

My parents judged people because of the Bible. They believed that sinners went to Hell. They believed God was a man in heaven. But then my teenage years arrived. And I started to question. And I started to move away because I saw so much hatred and bigotry in the name of

Christianity. But me being me I wanted to understand more. I researched well known theology and biblical scholars. Something my family never ever did. Then things started to fall into place. The vast amount of information going back centuries. I remember the first thing that

really shocked me was that Jesus never thought of himself as God. I was like “whhhhaaaattttttt?!?!?!” In fact it is largely known that Jesus was the Jesus of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Jesus was not the Jesus of John. John was written when the Christian

movement started to see him as God. He was their light out of the darkness. And that’s how John was written with Jesus saying, “I am the light of the world.” Etc etc. He didn’t say these things. He doesn’t say this in Mark, Matthew or Luke. There was vast research on this. Can

you imagine how shocked I was to learn this? But the shocks kept coming. The Bible for example is a book written in ancient times about ancient people. The genocide of the Canaanites was NOT ordered by God. It was an ancient people using propaganda to wage war against the

Canaanites and using God’s name to do it. So you then reread the Bible as it becomes clear as anything. You get people saying God told them to protect certain people, whereas you get others saying that God told them to butcher those very same people. This puts the Bible into a

whole new context. The Bible is a tool to see how people have used God for their own purposes. You get good people who talk about God’s love, whereas others talk of his wrath if you don’t do what they say. We still have this to this very day. Throughout the Bible it clearly

states that God is about love. Yet because people read the Bible literally, they believe he is wrathful and cruel based upon how ancient people’s used his name to commit atrocities. But then came one of the biggest lessons. God. To me, like the people in the Bible, I called him

He. Because He was mentioned by these ancient people. He told us to do this. He told us to do that. So we separate this He from us. Until a biblical scholar and pastor told me at aged 20, God isn’t a he and it’s stated clearly in the Bible. They used Him for effect.

In Acts 17:28 it states, For in him we live, and move, and have our being. What the scholar told me was that God was not a divine spiritual being but that God was all and we are all part of all, we live, and move, and have our being in All. Every single one of us. But what he

then said is what blew my mind. Christians who attack people are actually attacking God . Because by attacking others is attacking All because we are all part of All and therefore all part of God as well as being God with God. I said, “ how come all of the

Christians don’t know this?” To which he replied, “Christians today do not understand the Bible in its simplest terms. They believe it literally, but that it’s not their fault because religious leaders from the earliest days knew they could control people if they believed it

literally.” Those that knew the truth were called heretics. It wasn’t until we stopped slaughtering and burning people in the name of God that true theology and Biblical scholarship could continue. So if this knowledge is out there, why don’t Christians know this? Because

Christianits today are split into two types. The same two types as goes back millennia. Those who want to use God as a weapon of cruelty and those that want to use God for love. People will continue to use God to commit atrocities and continue in their bigoted ways.

That is why there are so many contradictions in the Bible. It’s not because God was contradictory, it’s because the PEOPLE used God in contradictory ways. Hell as we know it doesn’t exist. We don’t go to hell if we sin because all humans sin has been paid for in our past, present

and future. That’s the whole point of Jesus on the cross. He died for our sins forever. It’s a real shame that people cannot read the Bible as was intended. But reading it with open eyes and seeing how different people in the Bible used Gods name is enlightening.

One thing I forgot the add. The people that use God as a weapon, those who push it for bigotry are the most blasphemous people alive. They make God cruel and small, like themselves. They make God in their image. Attacking me is to attack God because God is all and I’m part of all