![]() There’s no choice I’m aware of that I can make, which would erase my doubts and questions from my memory. Near the beginning she writes that believing God is a choice. I found these when I looked at Beth Moore’s book online this week. Thirdly, there a couple of specific things I noticed which would be problems for me. I can’t talk about what God’s plan is and how Satan is trying to mess it up because of all my doubts. Not only that but, speaking for myself, the other less direct route is now blocked by all the questions I have. I’d rather cut straight to the chase and just look at my life: what works, what doesn’t’ what’s going fine and what I need to work harder at. Not only that but it seems very indirect to set up and ‘train’ me in this scenario which then has to be ‘applied’ to my life. It seems so unreal to me now to talk about ‘the enemy’ (Satan) and ‘winning battles against the enemy’. The second problem was the language/methodology. My sense is that most women – and a LOT of women have taken Beth Moore and other similar studies – don’t question what is taught at all. Otherwise, the rest of the group will assume the lecturer/book is right and you just don’t get it yet. what the workbook lecturer claims it says” for it to carry any weight. Your objection needs to be based on “what the Word of God really says vs. Otherwise it’s simply your human fallible wisdom against the Word of God. But only if you have a Bible verse to substantiate why you think you disagree. Since I’ve been in studies like this, I know it’s ok to question what the lecturer or workbook says. But I’m not ok with a stranger on a video telling me what to do. And my husband can give me a list of things he’d like me to do since I have time while he’s at work. For example, an employer has the right to tell me what to do since he/she is paying for my time and services. But I don’t like being told what to do except where I have agreed to be in a role where that’s appropriate. Now, I don’t mind people suggesting things to me. And the Bible is a book about what God is telling me to do. This whole study seems to consist of Beth Moore telling me what to do in an authoritative way – which she presumably feels is justified since all she is doing (from her point of view) is declaring what the Bible teaches. The first problem was the authoritarian nature of it. In fact it’s hard to believe I ever could. However there’s no way I could do a study like this anymore. The women there were nice and I would be happy to get together with them for purely social reasons. That explains why each session is about 2 hours. I hadn’t realized it was a ‘video’ Bible study where after going through questions you’ve prepared you watch a lecture (by Beth Moore) on DVD each week. First the two leaders talked about the format, then we watched the first DVD. She was very friendly and said I was welcome. I called the host to ask her if it would be ok. I’m still working on being a better wife, mother and community member (and human being) and so I thought I’d go to the introductory session of this Beth Moore Bible Study to see if it might work for me to be in it. I didn’t voice my doubts, which made things go smoothly, but eventually I felt I should leave because that was dishonest of me. ![]() This why why I kept going for a while after I had a lot of doubts about the Bible. I liked being in Bible studies with other women who were all working on being better wives and mothers and community members (and human beings). I first met both these friends in a different Bible Study ( BSF), which no longer meets in our local area. ![]() Two of my friends invited me to a Beth Moore Bible Study (Breaking Free) which is going to be held very close to where I live.
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