Christians, at what point did you make the story of the Holy Bible your personal truth?

I don't really know what you or other people mean by "personal truth" as opposed to ordinary truth. Truth is just correspondence with reality. For example, if I say, "My cat is pregnant," and if, in reality, my cat really IS pregnant, then my claim is true. I don't know what it would mean for it to be my personal truth. I don't think truth IS personal. One might have personal feelings ABOUT truth. Is that what you mean?

I grew up thinking the Bible was true in everything it said. Around the age of 19, I began to have some serious doubts about it. This lasted until around the age of 23 or 25 (can't remember exactly, but it was probably a gradual process). I began to think there were some things in the Bible that were definitely true, and others that were probably true, and I remained agnostic on a few other things. Between maybe 27 and 30, I began to think there were at least a few things in the Bible that were probably false, but I still thought the majority was probably true. I'm 36 now, I believe some things in the Bible are definitely true, some things probably true, and a few things are possibly true and possibly false.

There are many churches Down South that put all their trust in the Bible, to a point where they don't really have a sermon on Sunday morning, but instead a collection of Bible verses presented one after the other by the preacher. Some of the congregation scrambles to look up each verse in their own personal Bible, while the preacher makes parallels between a verse in the Old Testament and one in the New.

I attended a service like this, and as a Lutheran was rather shocked at the departure from what I knew. It was a Church of Christ, and the preacher actually had an overhead projector where the Bible verses were being projected.

No beauty, no stained glass windows, no lovely sermon by an educated pastor, no regular regimen of prayers followed by songs, no wonderful choir. No vestments, no fancy altar, no flowers.

That was all too much Bible for me, and not enough "church."

I went to a christian school, where the Bible was read, and the stories fascinated me. It was one of my favourite subjects. I cant tell you when I started to believe, I think it was always there, so no matter if someone told me different, deep within me, I knew the Word of God is true, being young I would get angry at someone ridiculing my beliefs,but now being older, I feel more sadness for those who ridicule the Word of God.

I made christianity my personal religion at 7. Now I'm 15 and thought I've fell down a few times god's always been there to help me get back up and it's changed my life.

Most did as children when they were raised into it like most religious people. It usually takes a traumatic event for it to REALLY kick in.

The Bible is not alive. God is alive.

if u believe in taking snakes, people coming back from the dead then you're silly

What do you care?