What if the Bible was true?

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Lifted from Nietzsche's The Gay Science:

Excelsior!— "You will never pray again, never adore again, never again rest in endless trust—you do not permit yourself to stop before any ultimate wisdom, ultimate goodness, ultimate power, while unharnessing your thoughts—you have no perpetual guardian and friend for your seven solitudes—you live without a view of mountains with snow on their peaks and fire in their hearts—there is no avenger for you any more nor any final improver—there is no longer any reason in what happens, no love in what will happen to you—no resting place is open any longer to your heart, where it only needs to find and no longer to seek, you resist any ultimate peace, you will the eternal recurrence of war and peace:—man of renunciation, all this you wish to renounce? Who will give you the strength for that? Nobody yet has had this strength!" There is a lake that one day ceased to permit itself to flow off, and it formed a dam where it had hitherto flown off: ever since this lake is rising higher and higher. Perhaps this very renunciation will also lend us the strength needed to bear this renunciation; perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

I was born and raised Roman Catholic. All the same, I've had quite a few private discussions with priests, a lot of studying on biology and the theory of evolution, and a good bit of soul searching. After all that, I've chosen to believe there's a God. But mine isn't exactly the same as what's in the Bible.

From a purely objective point of view- the Bible is and always has been produced by human hands. It has even been deliberately and plainly altered in recent times that we know of, meaning that such alterations were likely there from the beginning. Several hard lines directly contradict other lines. Some entire sections are obviously written with an extremely different voice than the original author. If I knew nothing else, it would be a discredit to myself and the God I tenaciously believe in to believe everything I read just because someone else told me it was all hard fact. Especially when there's been several religions throughout time that have all tried the same shtick about as well.

Cherry picking morals certainly isn't the answer either, as that will ultimately lead to forming pretexts and false beliefs based on subconscious desires. Every bead of wisdom needs to be studied and evaluated for purity, and I must remember to check on them later to make sure I didn't miss so much as a speck of dust. To do any less would make me a hypocrite and a monster of my own design. And this is the most important lesson I've learned while reading the Bible.

Regardless of what I see or hear, I must actively pursue my own identity. One man tells you to stone a whore, the next tells you to turn the other cheek, another tells you to pluck out your own eye, one more tells you to take her's, and the last tells you to help the poor woman. Right and wrong aren't black and white. They aren't even gray. Everything is justified in some way or another. Better to lay out your feelings and impulses and judge them accordingly than to act by rigid doctrine alone, twisting your ankle and falling at the first knock of reality.

I just thought of an other thing from the "good book", if Sodom and Gomorra was destroyed by god becouse of their sinfull living, what the hell where they doing in there?! I mean, look at the world, what sins are not present in todays society? And we're still around aren't we? Or has God just given up on us?

The thought had crossed my mind. He couldn't have been too serious about following him and only him. Otherwise there likely wouldn't be any other religions, or people would at least know of the truth before they could be corrupted. Hell, why even make us learn it? He'd be fully capable of just giving us the knowledge at birth and saving everyone the trouble, right?

But we don't know anything special at birth. We can very easily go our entire lives without even hearing the word Bible. It would be unfair to just assume these people are hated and get sent to hell for a misgiving they were never aware of. Equally so for anyone that's ever had a good reason to doubt God, the Bible, or anything else. It's not like most of these people actively oppose God, they just don't believe. And it's sort of arrogant to believe a handful of mortal meat sacks are high enough to an immortal deity to actually anger him.

So where do we come in, anyway? I have my theories. It stems from the simple belief that you can't get everything from nothing. If God, the literal sentience of the multiverse, were to create anything, he'd have to do it by giving up a piece of himself. There can't be any other way. Which makes each of us, every creature, and even the nonliving mass around us a singular, infinitesimally small portion of God. This entire universe follows arbitrary rules- physics, chemistry, mathematical patterns, atoms, nuclear fusion- and most important, the conservation of energy.

But while the universe does, humans alone (to our current knowledge) are given high levels of reasoning skills and a vivid imagination. The arts have always been important to us. People regularly confuse fiction with reality, even in the form of religion. So, why?

My theory is that it's because we're still connected to God, and we're serving our purpose simply by our continued existence. We're like his right brain. The fact that we each live and think differently contributes to the whole and enriches us all. Would God cease to be just because any or all of us stopped believing in him? No. And there'd be no real reason to stop any of the horrible things that happen down here. We mostly bring it on ourselves, it teaches us a lesson, and it's not like he can't have a long chat with the dead about it anyway. Death isn't the end for him, or us. We just think that way, and that's why we fail to realize why he doesn't bother correcting us.

Just my theory, of course.