Curious - when you say "you read books," can you pass along any specific ones? I am curious what ones you are referring to, other than the KJV Bible. Also, what was the College you attended - not necessarily the name, but was it a specific denomination, or one with a specific outlook on Scripture?
Nothing insidious here, I'm just curious what has made you so passoniate.
Obviously, actually reading the Bible was a bit of a shock to me after my youthful indoctrination in Catholicism.
I had no problem with the Bible itself. I was a bit confused about just how come my Church never really emphasized it. Of course I mean after I actually read it, those sentiments appeared.
It was the College Courses that really awakened me. The professors were simply, in a word, Godless.
The more that I studied, the more that they hurt my insides.
I was outraged at my university (U/Mass) for allowing something in the Divinity Program to be so anti religion in its nature.
That was a long time ago.
I am over the anguish now, but...I am always a little pissed off ever since. I pay more attention to these sorts of things/discussions when they arise.
Mostly I keep my mouth shut, but not out here on FR.com.
I still have most my text books, and I still resent them a bit. They are just dry texts, with a lot of BS on the inside.
In particular, F.F. Bruce astonished me with his works. He was so EZ to read.
Bruce danced around the higher critics and simply wrote about stuff that was historically demonstrably observable.
I cannot recall the names of, or the authors of the books that I read back in those days. one in particular that I am holding now is Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard W. Anderson
I think that it is likely that you are more well read than I am.