Because the life itself doesn't have a meaning itself. I belive in god and without god its hard to live the life. Otherwise we can easily get into sins. There are more beyond some myths.
And the unavoidable truth is death.
Isn't the bible itself a precious text ? I believe the issue is humans manipulating all those that said in it for their personal or religious benefit.
I mean the original bible that written by collection of texts written in different languages (Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic) over a period of 200-300 BCE.
But can't it negatively affect us all, expecially if we born in a religious family who take all these things seriously without sense. They used to believe everything said by pastors and priests without using common sense. Anyway they will repeat all the sins, then say my god will forgive me. But how much time ?
I have to consider both aethist and believers opinion in order to get a clear picture. So it doesn't really matter.
Revelation 22:18-19, which says:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
This is what mean by nobody should edit/correct the bible.
Thank you for replying...
By edit i mean this verse in Revelation 22:18-19, which says:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
I believed that doing so can change the entire meaning on bible.
And by life, in my personal opinion i believe the bible is a guide to live life and only god have the quality to guide us among life and no human should never try to manipulate his true words.
Also i was very obsessed about thinking all of this censorship thing.
Actually i didn't readed the originally written bible, probably nobody could.
Most of the things you said make sense and gives me a clear picture about the reality of my worry.
You said so because of the censorship, or just because you are an aethist?
In the Bible, it says clearly that no one should make a dare to edit or correct the Bible by any words. But many chapters and contents are extremely censored from the original Bible. How is this acceptable, and how do we know the truth and full story about the entire life?
(Finally, some of the replies and trolls I received made me more confused. But thanks a lot for the reference replies.)
