You can "explain the Bible"? Then you must be aware that haughtiness comes before a fall, pride before destruction, yet you're so prideful in your "knowledge". And apparently believe that the Bible is "God's" word, although it was written by men and rewritten to suit the early Church. Many times, and even in the OT, God said that "lying scribes" distorted His words. The "Church" you believe in is Paul's Church and Paul's Jesus, a pagan Jesus. The first "church" was in Jerusalem led by Peter and James, the brother of Jesus. Men who actually knew Jesus and listened to him speak and they didn't like Paul's "teachings" at all. He never met Jesus or heard him teach but used his name to build a church for gentiles, pagans, and the Jesus Paul spoke of was his pagan version of Jesus. I'm not saying that Paul was not a good man, and he did teach a lot of things Jesus would approve of, But no original documents exist and what the early Church did was 'cheery-pick', as you say, from many hundreds of writings extant at the time and destroying any that didn't fit their narrative of Jesus, one that suited Rome. I'm sure you must be familiar with those facts or how else could you "explain" the Bible and that it was composed by a group of bishops in Nicaea in 326 and again in 385 and again in the fifth century to suit emperor Justinian and again during the Reformation by Luther. Christianity, as taught in churches now, was codified between 300 and 500 and 1,500 years after Jesus was crucified for the alleged act of treason- calling himself a King, which he never did. What he did was anger the priests and church leaders today are no better than those he condemned. And maybe you would also explain that there were at least three different 'Christian' churches, but Paul's pagan churches were favored by Rome because the others were too Jewish, even though Jesus was a Jew, but Jews were, as they still are, not popular in Rome? And that incorporating well-known pagan gods into the story of Jesus made Paul's version of Christianity more acceptable to Romans? The biggest may be worship on Sunday, the Roman pagan 'Solis ' rather keeping the Sabbath. But there are so many more examples that it would take a book to list them all- and books have been written about that subject. But they'll conflict with your beliefs, so you'll probably never read them.