Tim Allen completes 13-month Bible reading journey, shares faith experience
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Tim Allen doesn’t take faith lightly.
Last year, the comedian took a deep dive into the Bible.
“I just finished the entire Bible,” the “Santa Claus” actor recently wrote to X. “It has been a journey of 13 months of poring over word by word, page by page.”
The 71-year-old man said he was “humbled, enlightened and amazed by what I have read and learned. I will rest and meditate. I will start again.”
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Tim Allen recently did an in-depth study of the Bible. (Raymond Liu/Disney via Getty Images)
But the “Home Improvement” star wasn’t always so sure of her beliefs.
Learning the cruelties of life at an early age
He struggled with this for years after his father was killed by a drunk driver when he was a child.
“When I was 11 years old, my father was killed by a drunk driver,” Allen said. Mike Rowe on his podcast last fall. “Luckily, he was the only one who died. But he died in my mother’s arms. My other two brothers were thrown around the car, many children were injured.”
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Allen, who was not in the car at the time of the crash, said he returned home after spending the day with a friend “knowing something terrible had happened” and prayed and bargained with God about it.
“‘I’ll eat vegetables,’ I said. No matter what when I was a kid. ‘No matter what, this is terrible. I’ll do my homework,’ or whatever,” he explained of his attempt to bargain with God at such a young age. “And none of that happened. I got home. There were the police and my uncle was there and he said, ‘Dude. You know, your mommy needs you right now. So no crying. None of that.'”
Allen said everyone around him told him his father was “in a better place.”
Tim Allen in a church scene from the 2017 movie “Last Man Standing.” (Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Television Network)
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“My first reaction was: ‘So why are we in this shitty place? Why don’t we start there?’ And it was never answered.”
Allen explained that his “pain” and “discomfort” over his father’s death and his faith “never stopped.”
“I didn’t care for years,” he said. “This whole process led me to ask questions and often get no answers.”
But the shop teacher at school told him to stop asking questions and figure out what he was thinking. it could be To do. “‘This is the only thing you can do,'” he said of his teacher’s advice to take control of his life. “I loved that about the shop teachers.”
He explained how he perceives God: “I don’t actually know what political, religious belief I have because the more I look at the person who spreads it, the more I label it, give it names, and then I go through all of that.” “He’s sitting in a big chair and has a beard for some reason. He looks like Father Time.”
He joked that he felt this emitter was telling him: “‘You have no idea how great I am. How insignificant you are, and yet you have the capacity to say, ‘No, I think I get it.'”
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An “interesting” relationship with God
Allen said in 2011: ABC News He felt he had an “interesting” relationship with God following his father’s death.
Tim Allen in a scene from the 1994 movie “Santa Claus”. (Walt Disney Pictures/Getty Images)
He said he had wondered for years if he had prayed more or if his father might still be alive if he had done something else.
“I didn’t like this idea of God, of church, for years,” he admitted. “(I) was still going to church, but I was a constant cynic.”
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But he said he soon began to think of God as the “Builder.”
“I always ask… Builder, what did you want me to do?” Allen said. “And that’s what I’m asking. But you have to be prepared for the answer.”
He added that humanity does not believe it can be a coincidence.
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“Whoever built me, it’s too much, too strange for this to happen by accident,” he said. “This didn’t happen by accident.”
Tim Allen said he struggled with his faith for years after his father’s death. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
A wake up call
His arrest for selling cocaine when he was in his 20s was also a wake-up call in his life.
“When I went to prison, reality hit me so hard it took my breath away, took away my presence, took away my strength.” he told Esquire In 2011.
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He said that in that moment when he felt suicidal, the “funny” thing inside him came out and “saved” his life.
He forgave his father’s murderer
And last September, inspired by Charlie Kirk’s widow’s ability to forgive her husband’s alleged killer, Allen said she wanted to forgive the drunk driver who killed her father.
“When Erika Kirk said this about the man who killed her husband: ‘That man… that young man… I forgive him. That moment touched me deeply,'” she wrote to X. “I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my father. Now, as I write these words, I will say them: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be with you all.”
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Bible journey begins
In August 2024, Allen admitted that he had never taken the time to “really read the Bible.”
At that time, he said, he had “nearly finished reading the Old Testament of the Jerusalem Bible and reading the Prophets.” Next is the New Testament. “So far it’s surprising and not at all what I expected.”
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Tim Allen in a scene from the 1995 movie “Home Improvement.” (American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images)
By October 2024, he updated fans on X, saying he had finished a “pretty intense” Ezekiel and moved on to Daniel. “The difficulty in reading this Book is how I translate the words expressed by the Eternal into the temporary. I need a Snickers,” he joked.
He said he finished the Old Testament a year ago.
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“Almost a year later I finished the entire Old Testament, and the experience of rereading, dedicated focus, and not drifting at all made it a humbling, very challenging experience,” he admitted. “What a treasure. Three days until the New Testament.”
By June, he announced that he was now reading Paul’s Gospel. “A Roman Jew familiar with Plato, Stoicism, and other Greek schools of thought. I was blown away by seven pages!”
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Allen recently told Bill Maher: his podcast He said he studied what Paul said about law being “invented to edify sin.” Without the law you cannot know what sin is… And what you will find is the cycle of philosophy and ignorance.”
“I’ve been at this point for the last 20 years,” he admitted.
