What if the Bible was true?

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I apologize for not using quotes, I've never gotten the hang of them.

My theory is based on a few observations, thus giving validity to it's right as a theory. The universe exists, human beings have free will, human beings have vast imaginations, the law of conservation of mass, the existence of time itself, and the arbitrary laws by which the universe is governed.

My beliefs are closer to gnostic teachings than traditional christian ones, but I reject a lot of the rigidity of gnostic structures in exchange for personal observation. Originally I was Catholic, then I became disillusioned with it's lack of evidence as I began believing more in Occam's razor. I was aethiest for a few years until I had a philosophical shift and determined that belief in the unlikely does not invalidate it's likelihood, spurred quite aptly with my diagnoses in high school not only with Asperger's syndrome, but how my psychologist described me.

"Imagine all of humanity is on a bell graph. Ordinary people are at the top of the bell. Further off the bell are less normal people and common deviations. And you- [holds hands far apart] you're way, way out here on a fringe by yourself."

I suppose I'd always known that extreme deviations could exist, but it really hit home to know I was one of them. It taught me to never doubt for the sake of doubting. It also caused me to question existence itself, no longer satisfied with the answer that if there's no evidence one shouldn't assume. It suppressed creativity and the human nature to seek out meaning and understanding.

After all, we live based on assumptions. We assume our senses are functioning correctly or at least unvarying, we assume the other people we see are truly there and not figments of our imaginations, we assume space and time as a whole exists when all of this is based solely on our own observation. People can see mirages and hear things that aren't there, have imaginary friends or voices in their heads, think in non-sequential order and do all kinds of other things that would corrupt our ability to simply observe things properly. Outside of the extremely paranoid and conspiracy theorists, we're willing to assume that these things aren't commonly happening and that the world as we know it exists.

So my explanation, until I hear a theory that seems more sound to me, is that the reason this universe is full of arbitrary rules, that humans are intelligent and imaginative, that a universe with conservation of mass is full of mass without observable explanation, and that time follows a linear sequential order is that humanity or perhaps even life itself is the right brain of a greater will, which I have chosen to dub 'God'. There are missing links in the theory. But I think this theory makes a lot more sense than the theory that the universe just happened, so I believe this one.