can you follow a spiritual path without a bible/book?

ive been given books to read by mormons,never a jew, christians of a couple of different divisions and had people try to get me to decide witchcraft. personally i follow christ but some of these books people give me seem to be more curses then anything including my bible. its gotten me this far but i once found one at a bus stop and should have kept it. so do you think you can still follow divinity without having anything to read by, and with that it also includes no signs, no reading into thing, taking no message from body launage and so forth. before the bible what was there?

buddhism, but I prefer to be an athiest who is accountable for my own accomplishments and shortcomings

The Celtic followers of the Old Religion did OK. cn

You may want to look into a group of people called Native Americans. They have a fascinating and tragic history. They were in America long before the bible ever existed and are considered to be a spirtual people. However you may have to read a book to learn about them.

I can hear all the christians now "rainman don't start that blaspheme,don't you say that shit boy,you better not say that shit,your going to hell rainman,jesus died for you son,don't you say that shit"....but I'm gonna say it anyway.Yeah I think people are better off without religion.how I see it,if these religions were true,we would not need other men to teach us,but rather the knowlege of belief would already be instilled in us from birth.

Religion seperates people,and what I don't like is the fact that christians can tell a morman,jew,or muslum that if they don't take "jesus" as their personal lord and savior they will burn for eternity,and the other way around,christians don't believe in allah,all religions aand their followers believe it's the only true religion,and everytones else is wrong.I believe god puts us wherever we wanna be,I believe that heaven is living a good,healthy long life,hell is prison,living poorly,depression,and all the suffering you can imagine,all that other bullshit about burning in hell,with a bunch of zombies and walkers is the work of men to keep you living in fear and controlling you.

Spiritual living is about understanding the laws of the universe and working in accordance with them, and being grateful for creation and the cycle of life. You find them out by living life trial & error, not with a book, although books are helpful.

Absolutely you can. Just follow your heart and morals and what you believe. I really don't see any need in a book. Unless of course you just want some reading or maybe some insperation, but it is by no means necissary.

i've never perused the bible nor the karan nor any book or mormon or any other such book, and guess what?? i think i fucking rock.. i mean, i'm a super good person, try to follow my own moral's and have lived a pretty good life so far without really doing much damage to myself or others..
i've made some mistakes, but eff me, who hasn't?? if you need some book to tell you how to be a good person, you really must not have had much of a clue in the beginning then ehh??

My opinion, please read;

Religion is what you will make it.

This is coming from experience.

Until about 5th grade I grew up in a private christian school that had religion class as part of the credentials and chapel every wednesday.

Went to bible school and church every sunday.

The whole time going through it I couldn't help but question the concept of god(s).

Luckily my parents were open minded. They never forced religion on me as they were from the counter culture era and were only trying to instill in my brothers and I what they were taught to believe growing up. What they're parents had taught them to know.

My best friend on the other hand, his father is a pastor. He has had no choice growing up but to believe god/religion is very important/ not man made/ the answer. You can not imagine the drunken but intellectual conversations we have had sitting around the camp fire on these subjects. I can tell he questions religion, but to say it out loud would be questioning his fathers livlihood
After living life and having many logical conversations on the subject I choose to avoid religion and (with due respect) consider it a support system for people who need it.

There was a good talk about religion on NPR the other day and a philosopher was trying to explain that if people would stop using God as an explanation for the unknown, people would advance much faster, and look at life in a more scientific aspect.
It builds walls in front of the unexplained.

I am god.
It was written by a man so it must be true...right?

What you're saying is you want to follow a religion that doesn't exist... Whatever you read will influence how you live by whatever religion you read about. If you don't want to read, you'd be making up you're own religion and livin by it.. Go for it. I don't see why not, you could call yourself Jewish and eat all the red meat you want!!

Check out this link http://mormon.org/faq/mormon-christian/

silasraven said:

ive been given books to read by mormons,never a jew, christians of a couple of different divisions and had people try to get me to decide witchcraft. personally i follow christ but some of these books people give me seem to be more curses then anything including my bible. its gotten me this far but i once found one at a bus stop and should have kept it. so do you think you can still follow divinity without having anything to read by, and with that it also includes no signs, no reading into thing, taking no message from body launage and so forth. before the bible what was there?

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All books, are the books of my religion and spirituality. All stories, are metaphors that attempt to bridge the gap between how we perceive reality to be, and our limited ability to rationalize and therefore accept it. Therefore, every story deals, fundamentally, with the same core ethereal issues that seem to haunt the very experience of being manifest here in this world we know. There is no need to limit to one book, or to flip to the other extreme and do away with guidance all together. One can open to all books, because at the core of every perspective is union with your own.

All forms of expression from another person, when boiled down far enough, are essentially mirrors of your own realm and will only reflect your own self-perception, rather than actually tell you anything outside of yourself. All forms of reception of some form of expression are essentially a sort of relationship, between you the receiver and the author who wrote it or created it. And all relationships are basically mirrors that we use to recalibrate our own inner parameters, which make it easier to deal with the experience of not actually being able to see or confirm anything outside of ourselves.

MojoRison said:

I am god. It was written by a man so it must be true...right?

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BLASPHEMY!! LOL..

answering the OP, yes, I believe you can follow a spiritual path without a book or a bible.

Get high and stare into empty space. That's my idea of religion.

Wrong section my man.

Try looking into nicomachean ethics. Developed by Aristotle, It looks at the use of ethics through a logical approach and how man can live a good life.

yeah ive already stated im christian. the idea is follow christ or devinity without a manual to do such. stopped praying for people, stopped going to church. read my bible sometimes. from what ive learned reading i think there is a way for someone to interpret god with a build or book. jesus was a nomad and dont no if he read what they had. it was all threw prayer. and any place is a good place for jesus bro.