1 Thessalonians 5:20 - 1 Thessalonians 5:22
Do not treat prophecies with contempt, but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
This verse is the one I believe to be my driving factor of my reading of the bible, and it is where I believe that the bible is trying to tell us not to believe everything with blind faith, but to test them all in order to verify their authenticity.
However, as I go through the other verses, and attempt to test them accordingly with real life experience, nothing seemed to match.
At one point, it says test everything, but another point religion says do not test god.
It is because when I test everything and find several contradictions in the bible, that I begin to lose my faith of Christianity. Ironically of course, it was those verses from the bible that made me lose my faith.
However that maybe to you, I can say wholeheartedly that its the opposite for me. The Bible verses seem real and alive to me.
God is not dead. God is real and lives inside us.
I'm not saying that to gain favour. I don't need to. So many real testimonies out there.