Tim Allen completes 13-month Bible reading journey, shares faith experience

Tim Allen Don’t take faith lightly.

Over the past year, the comedian has delved into the Bible.

“I finished the entire Bible,” the actor from Channel X’s “The Santa Clause” recently wrote. “It’s been 13 months word by word page by page without a skimming trip.”

The 71-year-old said he was “humbled, enlightened and amazed by what I have read and what I have learned. I will rest and reflect a lot. I will start it again.”

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Tim Allen recently delved into a Bible study. (Raymond Liu/Disney via Getty Images)

But the “Home Improvement” star wasn’t always sure of his beliefs.

Learning about the harshness of life at an early age

he I struggled with it for years After his father was killed by a drunk driver when he was a child.

“My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was 11,” Allen said. Mike Rowe on his podcast last fall. “Fortunately, he was the only one killed. But he died in my mother’s arms. My two other brothers fell around the car, and many children were injured.”

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Allen, who was not in the car during the crash, said he returned home after spending the day with a friend “knowing something terrible had happened” and was praying and negotiating with God about it.

“I’ll eat vegetables,” I said. No matter how baby he is. “Just make it – whatever happens – that this is terrible.” I’ll do my homework, or whatever,” he explained of trying to bargain with God at such a young age. “And none of that happened. I got home. “There were cops and my uncle was there and he said, ‘Man, you know, your mom needs you right now. So, there’s no need to cry. None of this.'”

Allen said everyone around him told him his father was “in a better place.”

Tim Allen in the 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 hole? 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” because of it.

“For many years I didn’t care,” he said. “This whole process has led me to ask questions and generally not get answers.”

But his shop teacher at school told him to stop asking questions and find out what he wanted He could He does. “That’s all you can do,” he said of his mentor’s advice to take control of his life. “I used to love that about shop teachers.”

“I don’t know what kind of political and religious persuasion I’m really representing, because whenever I look at the pop-up, I tag it, I make up names, and then I go through this whole thing,” he explained of the way he views God. “He’s in a big chair, and he’s got a beard for some reason. He looks like Father Time.”

He joked that he feels like this pop-up is saying to him, “You have no idea how big I am. How insignificant you are and yet you have the ability to say, ‘No, I think I got it.'”

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A “strange” relationship with God

Allen said in 2011 ABC News He felt like he had a “strange” relationship with God after his father’s death.

Tim Allen in a scene from the 1994 film “The Santa Clause.” (Walt Disney Images/Getty Images)

He said he had wondered for years whether if he had prayed more or if he had done something else, his father might still be alive.

“For years, I didn’t like this Idea about God, the Church“, he admitted. “(I was) still a churchgoer, but constantly sarcastic.”

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But he said he soon began to think of God as “the builder.”

“I always ask… Builder, what do you want me to do?” Allen said. “And I ask that. But you have to be prepared to answer.”

He added that he does not believe that humanity can be a mere coincidence.

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“Whoever built it is very, very strange because it happened by accident,” he said. “It didn’t happen by accident.”

Tim Allen said he struggled with his faith for years after his father’s death. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Wake-up call

His arrest For selling cocaine when he was in his twenties, it was also a wake-up call in his life.

“When I went to prison, reality hit me so hard that it took my breath away, took away my attitude, took away my strength,” he said. Gentleman said In 2011.

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He said that at that moment, when he was feeling suicidal, the “comedian” inside him appeared and “saved” his life.

Pardoning his father’s killer

Last September, inspired by Charlie Kirk’s widow’s ability to forgive her husband’s alleged killer, Allen said he… He wanted to forgive The drunk driver who killed his father.

“when Erica Kirk The words spoke of the man who killed her husband: “This man… that young man… I forgive him.” “That moment touched me deeply,” he wrote on X. “I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my father. I will say these words now as I write: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be upon you all.”

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The Bible journey begins

In August 2024, Allen admitted that he had not made time to “really read the Bible.”

At the time, he said he was about to finish “reading the Old Testament of the Bible in Jerusalem, and he was about to finish reading the Prophets. Then the New Testament. It’s amazing so far 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 the “fairly intense” Ezekiel and was moving on to Daniel. He joked, “The challenge in reading this book is how to translate the words that express the eternal into the temporary. I need a Snickers.”

One year ago, he said he had finished the Old Testament.

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“After nearly a year, I finished the entire Old Testament, and the experience of re-reading, dedicated focus and not getting carried away made this an overwhelming and humbling experience,” he admitted. “What a treasure. Three days in the New Testament.”

By June, he revealed that he was now reading Paul’s Bible. “A Roman Jew familiar with Plato, Stoicism, and other Greek schools of thought. I’m amazed at seven pages!”

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Recently, Allen told Bill Maher His podcast He was studying what Paul said about the law being invented “to promote sin. Without the law you don’t know what sin is…and what you find is a cycle of ignorance with philosophy.”

“That’s where I’ve been for the last 20 years,” he admitted.