trademanic, if the bible works for you then more power to you. It is book of great wisdom and insight and truth........
........but the minute someone tries get all exclusive and starts to preach fear and hell fire to me I immediately put a wall up. Not interested, nope, no way, talk to the hand girl friend.
In the past the people who have spoken into my life and who have been so narrow and rigid in their views have always turned out to be a swirling cesspool of contradictions and darkness and fear and hidden secrets......but that is a good thing because it has helped to shape my views on spiritual matters. I am not afraid to explore the possibility that I don't have all the answers.
