Holy Scripture

[poliphilo]

I attended theological college in the 1970s- where I was taught that the old testament is unhistorical, the gospels utterly unreliable, the sayings of Jesus plagiarised  and the whole Bible (though it wasn't put that way) a crazy patchwork of lies and forgeries.  I was then expected to go out and preach from it as if I believed it was the Word of God.

It did my head in. 

When I became a witch I made a virtue out of there being no such thing as a Wiccan scripture.  

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's what it came to. After ten years I could no longer do the mental gymnastics.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Mental gymnastics... Yes, that's how I felt when I was trying so hard to be a Christian. It really did my head it trying to simultaneously believe that God became man to live amongst us in the body of Jesus and teach us how to be better people, whilst at the same time Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, totally free from sin, which would redeem us all and turn away God's wrath.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It doesn't add up. The pieces don't fit. It is just too elaborately ingenious.