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Once I start deciding what I want to keep and what I want to put aside, then I'm just defining faith acording to what I think is right. I realize with the current trend to "believe in yourself" this seems pretty reasonable, but I know myself well enought to know that I do some pretty crummy things and am probably not the best person to know what is and is not true in the world. Rather I look to the bible which appears to me (despite assertions to the opposite) to be the best external source of truth about faith there is.

So, you don't trust yourself to decide what is 'the right thing', although it is only you who can decide what is 'the right Book' (that is, the Bible, as opposed to Torah, Koran, Vedas...., or Dianetics...., or Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten..., or nothing at all).

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There are lots of reasons I believe the bible is true, but the most compelling for me is that it is so consistent with what I've experienced as a Christian...

Isn't this a bit circular? You use the Bible as guidance because it agrees with your beliefs drawn from Bible...

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... and the numerous prophetic predictions that it asserts and have verifiably happened (see Daniel).

Now, is there a religion (or wierder belief systems) that does not claim that?
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