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Originally Posted by BagelLover
I listen to the audio bible on youtube if/when experiencing any anxiety. put it on autoplay. It helps me fall asleep. Exercise and eating organic whole foods also helps.
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1 Chronicles will do that. However, if you want to wake up read Exodus 21 about how to sell your daughter into slavery or, if you need to kill your slave, making sure you beat them only to the point that they die the next day or subsequently. If they die the same day you beat them - that's a wrong.
Of course the idea of an impetuous city-destroying, world-flooding, jealous, omnipotent, omnipresent creator who can punish an 80 yr earth life with an
eternal life in an unimaginable hell shouldn't cause anxiety in anyone.
Its interesting some think reading the bible alone is the thing associated with better mental health. In fact, the data seem to show that the social life and community attendant to religious practices itself is the determinative factor. The guy in the hut reading the bible morning to night doesn't exactly elicit the same idea of good mental health versus the ladies organizing the bake sale and meeting on Sunday at 9am in their finest. The studies also show this phenomena across different religions, some of which are essentially non-theistic, some of which are polytheistic. The benefits of
social community and a feeling of
belonging and purpose are not to be underestimated, however one gets there. The Bible, even ignoring its sexism, homophobia, slave rules (somehow "Don't enslave anyone" get left out of the 10 commandments) and other awfulnesses, may not be the best route to anxiety treatment, but religious social community and belonging can.
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