Ok Tina, I can see your response as directly to the thread topic and Sawthelight. I hope it's atleast evident that I was trying to make sense of things as opposed to a simple assumption. (the embellishment was not dull was it? )
I must say, a question of this type is vague and hard to talk about. I was trying to keep it general, but it looks like that attempt might have accounted for my misunderstanding.
The bible is a big book, what does "believing in the bible" mean to a given individual? That all the contents are to be interpreted literally? There are some books where it is obviously symbolic. Everyone will have a different take, in that their beliefs are not exactly the same. Actually, I suppose if you want to talk about "the fundamentals" as established at the counsel of xyz, (I'm sure others who know more will know the reference) atleast that's a place to start.
Actually, the bible is a collection of books. We're taught that it has one theme and there are connections, but when you get right down to it can you really pinpoint all of that in the 66 books?
And there's also the matter of what you understand Christianity to be. I'm sure all of us here are familiar with the idea of it as being following Jesus, as that was also taught to us as a response to other Christians. (after all, the JWs are not considered as Christians by many) But what does THAT mean? How do you understand Jesus? I personally keep it simple, love your neighbor is a cool idea, I'll go with that. But then there are other people who says that's not enough. Well, all I can say is if you want to really get into beliefs then that's a completely different game. My simple answer to this question would have to be "Yes, some of it." But of course that doesn't say a whole lot. I think you'd really have to start other threads and it would probably be more appropriate to put them under the Beliefs board. But frankly, my view of beliefs is that it's just a mental game. Sure we have to believe something, but is spirituality just about believing things?