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In conclusion, You are your own God, you should feed your god the gods of the past, and not only feed it The Bible's cocacola and mcdonalds. Your god will get very sick if you only feed it one meal, and meals based around a happymeal.
Does it not take more pure, unaided ego-centric faith to believe that one
is god than to take it on authority of scripture that God is external and sovereign, albeit arbitrary?
I suspect I know the books you wish others to read, and given what I've seen and been through, I can tear them apart from cover to cover. They certainly did more harm than good. Do be careful what you choose to read, it can become a regrettably inextricable part of you.
It takes far more self righteous ego to project God as the undeniable universal absolute known only to your particular favored translation, upbringing and adult experience than it takes to allow yourself to take sole responsibility for your own life, values, and perception of reality. In my opinion, of course- to answer your question.
Do you suspect ALL OF THE BOOKS EVER?
Take a quick look at the dewey decimal system up to the fourth decimal place. The religion section alone is humongous due to the dominant christian urge to monopolize ideology.
Please don't tear every book ever written apart cover to cover. Nobody would ever see you finish.
The bible did more good than harm because books don't do harm. Books only codify ideas. People, however, got lots of terrible ideas from lots of terrible books.
You could argue the bible is not one of those terrible books, but even you wouldn't believe you.