Christians: When did you start believing your Bible? And by what Criteria? Do you believe all?

Question

1. When: I'm asking for *age*, not year or something.
2. Criteria: I of course mean - Reasons for believing it? ... Why?
3. Believe all: I don't want a list, just %age, "most/all..." or similar.
-- Thanks muchly.

Answer 1

1. 7
2. God's fingerprints are all over the place.
3. All

Answer 2

"1. When: I'm asking for *age*, not year or something."
I was 24 years old.

"2. Criteria: I of course mean - Reasons for believing it? ... Why?"
Literally it's because I risked trusting God because His spirit was drawing me to Him. He gave me understanding.

Figuratively, I suppose that I made a decision to risk trusting Him. Later I found out that that is exactly what it takes to initiate the relationship. To not sound like a broken record ( as I see that my literal and figurative reasons are practically the same), He started it. I found myself being drawn to him long before I actually acted on it. Those Christians that were witnessing to me before I accepted knew that they had a live one. All I had to do was commit. And so I eventually did.

"3. Believe all: I don't want a list, just %age, "most/all..." or similar."
I seem to remember believing what I read as I read it. It's just that I had to think about it first. And it took me a long time to read the whole Bible. So I was without the parts of the Bible that were never preached on. I really could not tell you percentages. But for the record, I would say that I believed all of it as long as I knew what was there.

But here's the thing; if you show an interest in the bible, and especially if you say that you are Christian, you will contract a lot of meathead things to believe that are what those who are somewhat knowledgable believe themselves. So it's not as if those who are new do not have issues that are challenging as to how they believe the bible. As yoiu might be aware of, there are a certain number of theories for every verse in the Bible, and every believer must get through that maze in order to understand what is right. I still have much to study after 20+ years.

Answer 3

When I was filled with the Holy Spirit The Word of God became more "real" for me. It came alive. I have been reading it pretty much daily for 30 years now and have some parts committed to memory.

It is awesome and transforming.

Answer 4

Those who obey my commandments are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them, and I will love them. And I WILL REVEAL MYSELF to each one of them. John 14:21