That's pretty much my stance as well. Either you take God at His word and believe all of it, or you don't have the authority to take any of it. The same one who said "This do in remembrance of me" was the same one who said "Let there be light". I may disagree with others on the interpretation of Scripture or even find it hard to believe the record at times, but if it's written down in Scripture then it carries the authority of God with it and my part as a believer is to accept it as such.
I'm not saying that I don't question at times, but I am saying that those questions always lead back to the authority of Scripture in the believer's life and our place in God's order. I may not understand it, but I must obey it if I am to remain in subjection to God's authority on the matter.
“I may not understand it, but I must obey it if I am to remain in subjection to God’s authority on the matter.”
I was just telling my daughter that - that there are a lot of things in the Bible that are hard to believe. And yes, sometimes I have a doubt planted that wonders if they are just “stories”. And in some sense they may be told in layman’s terms as they didn’t even have the proper knowledge to fully comprehend what had been revealed to them. (I’m thinking of the Creation story primarily there).
But I told her, as hard as some of them are to understand - the one that is just as - or even most difficult to understand is - that our God came to live on this sinful earth, struggle through life for 30+ years, then preach His gospel, get persecuted and crucified, and then resurrected.
I figure if I can believe that, and by faith and my life’s experiences know that it is true, I can believe everything else in the Bible as well. (Although I still have some doubts on some of them - like that 3 days in the fish, etc.)