I'm... honestly not sure if my original post was clear or not. There seems to be much not getting of what I meant, but mainly by one person, so I can't be sure. Looking back, I may have stated my idea in a weird way, it was worded as a question but didn't really work as one, and the whole thing was pretty roundabout. So I'll try to be direct and just state the issue that I'm wrestling with. I have too many research projects to do one here, I have done some cursory searches on each of my points and they seem to rate at least plausible.
As I understand it, Christians believe the ultimate source of morality and truth and the authority of their religion is god. Yet they have fairly simple evidence that many aspects of their religion were defined by men, not god. So for example, all of Protestantism. The reformation was a movement created in response to the action of human Catholics. Its not like god came down and gave additional information (some protestant movements may have claimed this, but I'm pretty sure many of them didn't). This means that the religion took a step forward
without the intervention of god, aka all the priests that teach the new religion aren't teaching the word of god, they're teaching the word of, say, Luther. Not civil rights Luther, helped kick off the reformation Luther. Or maybe they're spreading the word of King Henry, who separated from the Catholic Church to create his church of England, because the pope wouldn't grant him a divorce. The Church of England that translated the English bible. Although I believe the bible Lord Bucket quoted was the King James bible, which was the third translation created by the Church of England, and was influenced by the "god is harsh, most of humanity is going to hell, we're going to burn a lot of people to death in the future" Puritans, who very much had a motivation for the bible to include hell.
Or the transition from Judaism to Christianity. As others have pointed out, there was no hell in the Jewish religion. Yet they both explicitly worship the same god, and Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism. Christianity does not explicitly teach that hell was created at some point around the birth of Christ, and the bible you're (probably? You didn't specify, but it seems like the best bet) using as evidence has references to hell in the old testament. So either god randomly changed his mind around the point Christianity emerged, or he just randomly only told half the truth to his Jewish followers, or they were for some reason mostly correctly about the whole god thing but wrong about there not being hell.
The basic point I'm trying to make is, it seems clear to me that a lot of modern Christianity was created by humans. Yet humans don't really have a say in how reality works under Christianity, AND the bible is explicitly true. And always has been. Even though it has observably been translated, influenced, derived from at least one other religion, and I'm like 90% sure the catholic church routinely modifies it. I just don't get it.
I was, not really angry, but certainly worked up when I wrote that. So hopefully it was all coherent and relatively inoffensive. Oh, and I'm not entirely done confirming everything I remember from history class about King Henry and Judaism, but I'm tired and it all sounds reasonable enough, so I'm hitting post.
I don't normally attach vaguely apologetic notes to things I write, but I'm not sure how I'm coming across here, and would just like to say that I am neither raging nor posting poorly thought out stuff (at least if time spent is a measure of how well thought out a post is).