For a long time, I thought the Bible was supposed to fix everything. It was the answer key. The rulebook. The voice of God, clear and final. That’s how it was taught to me in the ICOC—the International Churches of Christ—where the Bible wasn’t just important, it was everything. We studied it, memorized it, submitted to it. It was presented as perfect, literal, inerrant—and if your life didn’t match up with it, you were the problem. But what happens when you start to question the way you've been taught to read it? What happens when the Bible becomes less of a guide and more of a god? In this episode of This Was Supposed to Be the Place, I dive into the idolatry of the Bible—how we elevate it, weaponize it, and often miss the deeper point it was always trying to make. I’m not a scholar. I’m not a theologian. I’m just someone who lived it, who got burned by it, and who’s trying to come back to it with softer eyes. This isn’t about throwing the Bible out. It’s about taking it off the pedestal and asking what kind of relationship we were actually meant to have with it.

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