Trying to see the "positive" of Christianity.

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The Bible is a highly interrogated collection of texts. I trust it, as I trust that the church fathers and others that compiled it, by means of my own study, to be as perfect as it can be. Before I moved to that position of trust, I was as skeptical as yourselves. Once you trust and accept it as correct, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Yes, I ate it. Wait, no. No I didn't.

This is why I was asking earlier, is that you can know each verse is from God by virtue of the verse itself, or is the whole book or whole chapters, and if it's the latter, how would you know, if individually you can't know?

For the pudding example, is it the whole experience of the bible or is it each and every instance of the bible that it's you knowing it's divine?

I know I felt Quran was Divine before, but that was through belief. If you believe, it feels it's from the divine, since that it is what you believe.

Well each verse is taken in context with the whole. No verse stands alone. Although Jesus pulled out a couple that he thought encapsulated the whole thing.

So whilst I trust that each verse is inspired, and I look at each critically, I keep in mind that the links to all other verses is significant.

Christians don't believe, like Muslims do, that the Bible is the literal word of God. It's god inspired, and potentially errant (Christians are trivially divided on the errant bit). It's called a canon because it has been meticulously checked and verified to be consistent.