Rev Geraint ap Iorwerth from Pennal quoted in a UK BBC report:
“People have told me they turned away from the real message of Jesus because of this God – that this version put lots of people off him as children.
“My version of God is Jesus, who was pure compassion and unconditional love.
“The King James Bible should be praised for its language but not for the God it represents – the two need to be separated.”
He said he burnt the pages, which were the remaining scraps of those he cut up to make the display, as a “symbol of all the suffering in the world”.
“The point being that some people are more concerned about destroying a few bits of pages than about those who have died after suffering.”
The Bishop will look into it, but I don’t think he’s going to be a lot of help:
“I have therefore written to the Reverend Geraint ap Iorwerth and will be investigating the matter further.
“There are parts of the Bible that we struggle to understand today because culturally our life is so far removed from that period in which the Bible was written.
“However, it is not given to us to pick and choose – sometimes the most challenging parts are those which we need to wrestle with most of all.”
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