MarcBee, Just noticed your current belief system isn't Biblical. I respect, though, that even in your current state, you see some of the same clarity - even if you don't believe it yourself anymore.
I was at a point in my life a few years ago where I had a decision to make - Faith...or No Faith. I chose faith. Yes, I agree that there are many things in the Bible that seems clear cut and dry and hard to swallow (and then there are other things that are "way out there" and hard to believe in our natural understanding), but I cannot get past the intangible truth that I see and feel a God in this great big world. Now, I could be some sort of "spiritual" person without a belief system...maybe go to a Unitarian church...or I could choose to trust that the Bible is the documented Word of God and his plan for humanity. I chose the latter, and I'm grateful that God was merciful upon me to allow me to make that choice.
At one point, I told a close friend - agonizingly - that I didn't know how to just "believe" something that I didn't believe. He told me: It's a choice. At the time, I didn't understand. Now I do. I choose faith, and I choose to read and obey what I continue to see in his Word. Whether or not God is bigger than my understanding (oh, and I have no doubt that He is) is irrelevant to me.
I must obey what I see...and for the minutia that I don't "see" in the Word...I choose not to make an issue out of those things. Who was Christ harshest on in Scripture? It was the people who created rules and regulations and placed them as hurdles to salvation. He said (
Matthew 23:13): "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either."
I choose faith, but I also choose not to create stumbling blocks to salvation by going outside the Word. Anyway - all this is totally off-topic, but a good dialogue nonetheless.