Thank you all. The current church is in the Assemblies of God denomination.....the people are good, but the whole thing with prophecy, tongues, healings....very into Brownsville Revival, Kathryn Kuhlman, slain in the spirit, gifts, falling before the altar......we had a revival service not too long ago that was very unsettling for me. Plus, the whole "God has to dictate every move you make" mindset that I've developed from it has got me tied up in knots.
Hi,
Please go slow and test. Although to be here they forced me to put up my Religion as Catholic and it is. I am very Catholic, what I am about to say about my form of Catholicism even has the Catholic hierarchy wondering not about me and God, but maybe about them and some of their sayings.
Technically no one goes to God. God actually calls. My call was totally Biblical. So when I see people say read the Bible, it is hard not to cheer, because yes that is incredibly important.
I am Catholic only because of something that is said in the Bible. Do not forsake your regular meetings. Great!, I thought, now I have to pick a church and go there regularly. So I did. I picked the Catholics and went there regularly.
Now every Prostestant here can tell you what it should be like for a Bible Person to be a Catholic. It was like this for me. They were sure I was a Biblical Saint. Here is why. I actually knew what the Bible said and says and how to read it. So, I just usually said what was there, and they called it profound.
So, I am still for reading The Bible, and for having an easy to read Bible with some errors in it. Why? Why could I say such a thing? How is that even possible for any Christian to say get an easy to read Bible with some errors in it? Shouldn't we instead get a Bible with no errors in it. This person must be daft or nuts or just plain to be ignored. I would think that is the worst piece of information anyone could be given.
That, easy to read Bible is only one of your sources of Bible information. The other Bibles in your home or bought from Good Will if you are low on funds, have to be there also. I can see this should confuse.
To shorten this. I used a Good News Bible and the other Bibles such as KJV together. What I did not understand, when I needed to have preciseness, I used the others also. I learned much faster that way. I had 8 to 10 Bibles, one of which was always an easy to read one.
Eventually this happened, but is advanced. On ever subject I wanted to know Biblically. I looked up every passage on that subject, from the front of The Bible to the back of the Bible and threw none of them out ever, then tried to see how they could all be true simulataeously. That is for later.
Changing churches is fine. It is a test. Bible reading is fine. I don't know how you can learn about God as well from any other source, including books.
LOVE,
...Katie., .... .