the Good Book
When I first read the Bible, I was an atheist. As a scientifically minded young person, I thought that cosmology and evolution provided a clear description of how the world came to be, and that religion was just superstition.
I argued with classmates, most of whom were Christian, about religion. One classmate finally convinced me that if I were to approach the question “scientifically,” then I would want to examine all the evidence, including the evidence for competing hypotheses. She stated that the evidence for faith is the Bible. Different people could say all sorts of things: some wise, some foolish, but the Christian claim is that the Holy Bible is the revealed Word of God. You don’t have to believe it to read it. You can doubt it. Just approach it as you would approach any other book, with an open mind (and with a recognition that it was written long ago, so it doesn’t follow the “rules” of most books).