I think it depends on how people choose to interpret it.
It can sometimes make life worse. Look at the children out there who have died because their parents thought the bible told them it was against god's will to seek medical help.
I took away more meaningful lessons from other books.
I asked a question about bibles earlier. heres another, do any of you believe that by reading the bible, your life will be better ?
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Carol 2012/08/22 00:52:49
But mind me, there's a HUGE difference between reading and studying, and you have to take in what your reading and meditate (Think) on it, and its good to apply it if you can to your daily life. If you just read it and check it off your list per say, then all it is to you is nothing more than a chore. it should and IS a privilege to read it! :)
People literally die to get their hands on a bible.
Your faith will either be strengthened, or you'll become an Atheist as a result of this.
I'd be more inclined to respect your opinion if you where at all educated on what the term Atheist means. Since you used that Creationist propaganda in your post, I've decided to inform you of just why we pick on you Creationists and JUST you Creationists, leaving the "evil" "Not Christians" who are rational Theists alone, since, y'know, they're not Christian enough according to you guys.
I'd be more inclined to respect your opinion if you where at all educated on what the term Atheist means. Since you used that Creationist propaganda in your post, I've decided to inform you of just why we pick on you Creationists and JUST you Creationists, leaving the "evil" "Not Christians" who are rational Theists alone, since, y'know, they're not Christian enough according to you guys.
I'm an Agnostic Atheist. I do not believe in the existence of any deity as there is a lack of rational empirical evidence for anyone's deity's existence. However, as there is a greater than zero chance of it being possible, I cannot logically discount the possibility of their existence.
Additionally, Cosmology and Evolution are not the same thing. Evolution doesn't even deal with Abiogenesis (the current hypothesis on the origins of life on this planet). ALL it deals with is how populations change over long periods of time.
Cosmology and the Big Bang Theory don't deal with biological evolution at all. They just provide a working model, based on currently understood evidence, of how this universe expanded from a singularity (A singularity isn't nothing, it's everything compressed to a nearly infinitely small area. Math tends to break down around such things. The Big Bang wasn't a literal explosion, or even an explosion of nothing into something, it was a rapid expansion of space/time. The proto-stuff that later became the universe as we see it didn't even exist until the universe had cooled to the point that atoms could form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
I accept these Theories (Captial T doesn't mean the same as little t. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for m...
I'm an Agnostic Atheist. I do not believe in the existence of any deity as there is a lack of rational empirical evidence for anyone's deity's existence. However, as there is a greater than zero chance of it being possible, I cannot logically discount the possibility of their existence.
Additionally, Cosmology and Evolution are not the same thing. Evolution doesn't even deal with Abiogenesis (the current hypothesis on the origins of life on this planet). ALL it deals with is how populations change over long periods of time.
Cosmology and the Big Bang Theory don't deal with biological evolution at all. They just provide a working model, based on currently understood evidence, of how this universe expanded from a singularity (A singularity isn't nothing, it's everything compressed to a nearly infinitely small area. Math tends to break down around such things. The Big Bang wasn't a literal explosion, or even an explosion of nothing into something, it was a rapid expansion of space/time. The proto-stuff that later became the universe as we see it didn't even exist until the universe had cooled to the point that atoms could form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
I accept these Theories (Captial T doesn't mean the same as little t. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for more information on that subject) as tentative pending more concrete data. Currently there is nothing known about the universe prior to the expansion of spacetime called the Big Bang. We don't know what started it or why. And by "we" i mean laypeople and scientists alike who accept this Theory as currently valid.
If, later on, a different model proves to be more accurate, then Big Bang will be discarded in favor of the more accurate model. Until then, we work with what we have and try to expand our knowledge. That's how science works.
I'd just rather be safe than sorry.
However, contrary to what many believe, only those that live by the faith and commandment of Jesus Christ is the true church. "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:5)
Try to be open to it, don't be surprised by those that try to steer you from it.
I don't know if any of what I just typed helps, but it's what I feel about it.