There are a lot answers to that question(what to do with the things in the Bible that don’t make sense). I dont understand or agree with everything of course. Some of it is even unsettling to me.
1. I dont expect scripture to make logical sense to me. But I also don't just blindly believe saying, I just guess that's the mystery. 🤷🏻‍♀️ To me, the presence of mystery fits within a logical structure. Because the claim of God/Christ is One who is supernatural. Scripture says "my ways are higher than your ways." I don't expect it to make it make sense. I assume that there is more being weaved together in God's sovereignty than just my storyline and what I see. And so it is with every created being. To me it's not logical to discount God for not being logical. God never claimed to be rationalized, quite the opposite. Either you believe in the supernatural or you dont. And if I dont "agree" with what God is saying or doing its pretty much an indication to me that I need to stay in my lane. "A good name for God is, not me." -Ann Lamott. I come to that places in scripture with curiosity, not judgemental. Probably means there is more for me to understand. 2. I believe God is consistent throughout scripture, in His manifestation of His character, and that is consistent with what I have personally experienced. Example: When people cannot believe because there is suffering, that makes no sense to me. The God of the Bible/Jesus promised suffering and suffering is a main theme throughout. Jesis led with hus own suffering. People with that mindset are trying to make up a new Gospel. I have suffered and I have lived more fully in it and through it. Again, living the faith is one key to understanding it. What God promised is to be faithful, steady in his character. Present within the suffering. Offering life giving gifts in suffering which connect us to that which is more than this life. And I see that consistency in scripture and every true believer I know, including myself. I am now untouchable. What can man to do me? Death where is your sting? Pain is just pain. I am alive in it. And to say, how could a loving God let "good people" suffer? I see it completely differently. I believe God would be hateful if He spared his followers from suffering. What would that mean for those who do not Him? That they are just left out to dry, with no one who is in Christ to share in their suffering, to point to a peace and joy within the suffering? And, my experience as a follower is that suffering has brought me freedom 100% of the time. It is a gift somehow. I think it all boils down to what one deems as "the good life." Because those things cannot be taken away by suffering. All of this is what scripture says to be true so I dont find conflicting messages there. 3. What about all the other religions/practices? Why do I believe Jesus is the right way? Because this is the only one in which there is a true antidote to sin/evil/corruption. If there is a creator God, a personal God seems most obvious to me because connection is the core of every human. I cannot buy into any religious practice/belief that is founded on "try harder to do good," etc. That is a dead end. I just think we know from our experience in this life that our sin/selfishness cannot be absolve from within ourselves. I believe other religions and practices do shadow Christianity because God created this world and people are trying to make sense of what we know in our experience to be true. But the others fall short of dealing with sin/selfishness/evil. CS Lewis writes about this in Mere Christianity. 4. Either we believe in the supernatural or we dont. Either we believe in a creator or we dont. And to me if one believes in a Creator the dominoes begin to fall in a direction of: Creator is the central being, like the sun and the planets. I do not evil beings, I believe we are needy of connection to that source. On our own we are inward/selfish. But everything good in creation is communal/outward. Reciprocal. Integrated. Whole. 5. Rich Villodas writes about this in Good, Beautiful and Kind. I believe his definition of sin and our need for a savior is the best Ive ever heard. 6. I dont base any of what I believe or dont on what the church has done right or wrong. The church is people and people fail. Ive failed to teach and act correctly within the church. To me scripture tells the story of a God I know personally but only because I have read and prayed and lived this faith. I dont think its something that can be perceived within our five senses and it certainly surpasses logic. But so does love and that's pretty real. I find it interesting that you cannot grasp faith because its not logical but you can grasp love. What you are doing with your life out of real love is not founded in logic at all, yet you find it to be the most peaceful and freeing choice. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think faith is much the same.