Yes, I can agree to that...but not that alone, it does oftentimes bring the issue back to the table though, instead of so much bashing. Besides I think that the anger so many feel is in part a crossover of the state of affairs in our nation...everyone is on edge. So Perhaps it was just a needed vent for you... and there isn’t an individual on these threads who hasn’t seen the same frustrations.
The bottom line is truth vs. falsehood...and some of those falsehoods are leading people away from the source of all truth...just as they are intended to do.
If you’ve become disappointed in your Bible studies...keep looking and trusting God He will calibrate your decisions as you search for the deeper things of God. I recall wanting to know more...and was told frankly when the student is ready God will provide the teachers...and He does. But What I wasn’t doing, I learned, was studying the scriptures between just God and I. It was after I began doing this, and finding that God does reveal to us a individuals, that the place of further teaching opened for me. He tests us even in our seeking Him in His written word....I had to learn to stay with that for awhile. But then He provided an outstanding teacher in the church I began attending.
Bible studies are not all the same...but the deeper things of God are taught as we ourselves dive into the deeper waters of His word...then He provides those to take us further and challenge us. Sounds like you need more than where you are at...pray for more and He will give you that in time.
The one Bible study I really want to go to is scheduled during a difficult time for me. The rest were ridiculous in their idiotic simplicity. Never had I expected to sit in a room full of people who just parrot what they’re told is “the truth.”
The most disappointing was somehow funny, though. My friend invited me to go, and was very excited. Until she remembered my tendency to question everything and demand more than shallow repetition. I went in with ideas and arguments from the class we are required to take prior to Adult Baptism/Confirmation. They had a hand out for the study. Not a single one of them had put any thought into the material, and they were just soaking it up the same way they would a college course they didn’t really care about.
Yes, this was a Bible study for “young adults” and “college students,” but I really expected more. When I had more of an understanding of sin than “it’s bad and you go to hell,” it resulted in one of the guys saying the exact same sentence over and over in an attempt to refute what I was saying. All because he didn’t understand.
While that is the worst it’s been for content, it’s indicative of all studies I’ve visited. I decided just to delve in without a group, and without the mediocre guidance of a would-be group leader. I’ve learned much more and grown so much stronger since then, because I didn’t have stupid talking points and catchy tag lines in the way of what God was trying to say.