Write down the last claim that made your faith feel cornered. It might be a professor who treated belief as something to outgrow, a headline announcing a fossil millions of years old, or a doctor laying out options no sermon ever covered. Use your own words, and do not soften it. You will come back to that sentence all the way through. Look at it now and notice one thing: it probably holds more than one question.
That observation is the beginning of the answer. You can keep both curiosity and conviction because they belong to different questions. Curiosity belongs to questions Scripture leaves open, such as the age of the earth and how God brought life about. On those, the Christian scholars in these Jude 3 Project conversations reach different conclusions. Conviction belongs to what does not move: one good Creator, every human being made in his image, and Jesus raised bodily from the dead. Telling those two kinds of question apart is most of the work, and it can be learned.
Acts 17:11 describes listeners who managed both at once: "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." They were ready to receive, and they checked. The practices that follow train that pairing in order. First you sort a challenge before answering it. Next you read Genesis for the questions it was written to answer. Then you restate a view you reject until its holders would sign your summary. Last, you carry all three into a medical decision and a real conversation. Nobody will rush you to a verdict.