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Ukit—I'm not quite sure what you mean by "have you ever questioned your faith or are you a born again?". Being "born again" is something that happens to every Christian. When a person accepts Christ as their Lord and savior, the holy spirit actually inhabits a person, changing them from the inside through faith. The term "born again" gets routinely abused by people who really haven't a clue what it means.
I'm not sure why you think being born again excludes the possibility of questioning one's faith. And yes, to answer your question, I have questioned everything I have ever been taught, and I continue to do so. I don't believe anything blindly without testing it, thinking through it, weighing the options and looking for loopholes. For many years I wandered from the faith of my parents, but God had different plans for me—little did I know, he had claimed me for himself and there was nothing I could do to resist him. As C. S. Lewis says, I was dragged kicking and screaming into the kingdom of heaven. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. I just came to a point several years ago where I could not intellectually or spiritually deny the gospel anymore. Becoming a Christian does not = intellectual suicide. Upon continued studying of Scripture, one finds that there are no loopholes. What at first seem like occasional contradictions turn out to be connected stories that complete each other and clarify each other, often separating the old from the new, or rather the new completes the old (i.e., the Old Testament law and the New Testament covenant).
Khurram, it's natural that the Bible would seem like vapid, unadulterated stupidity to you. Even though the Bible is not graduate-level reading material, its message will always seem unclear, cryptic, silly, and childish to those the Holy Spirit has not yet revealed himself. The Bible even says that the wisdom of God seems like foolishness to the world, because it all flies in the face of our inborn pride, self-delusion and self-centeredness. Even though God uses his people to spread the gospel, it is ultimately he that saves.
BTW have you ever read Kierkegaard? What did you think? The man can hardly be called a vapid idiot.