Is this a sin?

[shinequi]

Praying and reading the bible not because you want to but because you feel the need to inorder to have a connection with your faith and God’s teaching.Although you may not feel spiritual directed and connected to them and like you’ll gain anything or even apply the teachings to your daily life. What you think:shrug:

 

[Barbkw]

Praying and reading the bible …to have a connection with your faith and God’s teaching. Although you may not feel spiritual directed and connected to them and like you’ll gain anything or even apply the teachings to your daily life.

I watch a scripture scholar on EWTN, her program is called “For God So Loved the World.”

She’s excellent. Her current study is on the Gospel of John.

ewtn.com/series/2007/Godlovedtheworld.htm

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

Frances Hogan, a native of Ireland, scripture scholar & author, leads a meditation on the first half of St. John’s Gospel. She simply presents the Gospel of John in lay language as distinct from a lecture-type format."

You might tune in to EWTN Dish Channel 261 and record an episode.

Her website: franceshogan.com/en/

 

[Barbkw]

Sacred Scripture, piece by piece, can be confusing, dry and mysterious in that the theme is evident yet hidden throughout.

I like Biblical history and Biblical archeology. Because the writers of Scripture lived in the time that they wrote, they left out facts about their lives that leave a reader either confused or wanting more information.

Ever find it odd, in the New Testament, that no one ever described Jesus’ face, Mary’s face, etc. !?

It’s maddening. Couldn’t they have told me if Jesus felt warm after His Resurrection?

Details, details, details, darn it

Writers of Sacred Scripture were very different than how authors write and describe life today.

 

[puzzleannie]

Praying and reading the bible not because you want to but because you feel the need to inorder to have a connection with your faith and God’s teaching.Although you may not feel spiritual directed and connected to them and like you’ll gain anything or even apply the teachings to your daily life. What you think

I cannot come up with any possible reason that reading your bible and praying, no matter what your motivation, could possibly be sinful in any way shape or form. Has someone said something to you that causes you to ask the question?

 

[NeedImprovement]

Praying and reading the bible not because you want to but because you feel the need to inorder to have a connection with your faith and God’s teaching.Although you may not feel spiritual directed and connected to them and like you’ll gain anything or even apply the teachings to your daily life. What you think:shrug:

These are circumstances that God can still easily work with. I wouldn’t let it worry me too much.

Here’s a little excerpt from a bio on St. Augustine. :

… Augustine was in his garden; he thought he was alone. He lay down beneath a tree; his tears wet the ground.

“How long?” he cried, “how long shall this be? It is always tomorrow and tomorrow. Why not this hour an end to all my meanness?”

As he spoke a little child in a house close by was singing some kind of nursery-rhyme, and the refrain was this “Take up and read, take up and read.” Mechanically Augustine stretched out his hand to a book he had brought with him. It was St. Paul’s Epistles.
He took it up, opened it at random, and read: …

… Nothing about why, or how … only “take up and read”, and this, mechanically.

 

[Claire_from_DE]

No sin there. But when you feel that way I think a good book is the Acts of the Apostles because it shows how powerfully God was acting in the early church. It helps to support my faith.

 

[sarahq]

I cannot come up with any possible reason that reading your bible and praying, no matter what your motivation, could possibly be sinful in any way shape or form. Has someone said something to you that causes you to ask the question?

I agree. I think reading scripture is always constructive, especially if you don’t really feel like reading.