>>23370989
you've totally missed some very basic points.
you have free will
God doesn't massacre.
If you do stuff that goes against His precepts you must face the consequences. It's not God doing it. It's other people or nature.
The 'Words of God' were written out by Saints in many cases.
but you'll ignore what saints interpret those words to mean.
It always benefits to read commentary or sermons of others. It's always useful to read an annotated scripture and follow the footnotes to older scripture.
yes you can be inspired by the Holy Spirit.
other people have already blazed a trail up the mountian. Why would you bushwack your way through a wilderness of possible misinterpretation when Saints have built a tramway of interpretation to the top?
but if that's what you want you do what you want.
As long as you're loving God and other people and have faith, hope, and charity, you're not doing anything wrong by reading the bible.
But it's kind of like having a programmable calculator and never bothering to learn how to program it.
there is much more in there that you're never going to be able to learn all that's there on your own.
fortunately you don't need to know it all.
The Shema pretty much covers what you need to know.