You and millions of others. I don’t judge, and I think you overestimate the concern that believers have. Most Christians are, sadly, fatalists. They assume your path is laid out before and that your belief or non-belief has already been decided. Now, this is wrong, of course, but it’s just their knee-jerk assumption about God’s plan. In sober moments they admit that this is wrong, but like most 21st century humans they don’t have many moments of reflection. I only council non-believers that many truly agnostic people are smart enough to realize that prayer can only help, and a nose in the Bible is edifying regardless of belief. Do these as an atheist and consider just how impressed the Flying Spaghetti Monster will be...?
“Most Christians are, sadly, fatalists. They assume your path is laid out before and that your belief or non-belief has already been decided.”
Not “most Christians”. Few true Christians are in that TULIP/Calvin camp.
Doesn't mean it doesn't contain good lessons though, although reading it from the perspective of trying to understand Bronze Age man's attempt to figure out the world instead of "this is God's word and I HAVE to believe every word or I'm damned" is much more enjoyable.