>>>How did you come accross your book of choice and what makes it the best choice of them?
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>>I was raised in a Christian home and was taught the Bible from an early age. As I grew and realized I had to be sure what I believed I studied the Bible and began to ask questions of those around me (both Christian and non-Christians.)
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>That answers my first question. During your formative years you were presented one book and told that the book was the true one.
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>But how about the second part of the question. What specificly did you find when you went asking questions and comparing your book, the Bible, to another's, say the Buddha?
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Most of my questions were dealing with the teaching of the Bible and understanding its teachings better. There was some comparison to other religions - but - for the most part it was struggles with teachings in the Bible and trying better understand those. Most all other religions deny the deity of Christ and I would discount those without further investigation.

>>>And it would be grand if you compared your choice to the choice of using our mind and our >conscience instead of a book to lead us through God's Creation, marveling all the while.
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>>Since my mind and conscience are fallible, I choose to rely on the infallible word of God to lead me.
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>You also said that your understanding of the Word is fallible, so even if the Bible were the True Word, you are still being lead by your mind and conscience to understand it.

I guess I needed to be more precise in that statement. Of course, one using his mind to understand things. Most things in the Bible are easily understood. Besides, I said my mind was fallible not useless (of course many of you probably disagree with that part...)

When someone decides to ignore outside information and relies solely on his mind and conscience to lead him, that is the sort of issue I meant to address in saying it was a dangerous practice.