Hmmm. I believe this conversation is going down the wrong track.
The general pattern of conversation begins with the personal and intimate, not intellectual and objective.
My church teaches that we are not believers because of what the Bible says. We are believers because we experience the supernatural in our lives. Then we read the Bible to understand more about this.
For now, the only thing that matters is your relationship with God, which is also your relationship with truth and yourself. (I honestly have no idea why God reached out to me when I was still an unbelieving sinner. Years later, I learned what happened to me is called
Prevenient grace.)
CONFESSION #1: Since you are on the path of objective and intellectual, let me ask,
are you happy? A valid test of any world view is it's practical affect; does it leave you happy? If not, this is a dead give away the atheist path you are on is wrong - and no intellectualizing will make it right, no amount of bashing the Bible or those who follow it will leave you happy.