To stand before God and say, "It all seemed to stupid" or even "I was a good and moral person" is not enough to avoid eternal punishment.
How do you know? Sounds like reasonable guy. What happens to people in the middle of nowhere in some tribe that has never even heard of God or Jesus or babies that die not knowing god? They burn in hell because nobody bothered to go tell them about this crap? If there was a god I think religions would be a pretty big insult to his intelligence. Shame you can't see this.
The Bible says that there is only "one way to the Father through Jesus Christ" and "every knee will bow and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord," "all have sinned and fallen short" and "Whosoever believes in Him will have eternal life." I did not write the Bible. I just read what it says and follow it to the very best of my ability, this is how I "know."
And you know the bible is legit because...? I'm going to have a guess and say this book is the particular one you were brainwashed with? If you grew up in Palestine you'd be telling us about Allah and if you grew up in Israel you'd be telling us about YHWH.
You might not've wrote the bible, but neither did god. It was people.
Since you seem to have amassed all the knowledge in the universe (going by the way you phrase your posts), please explain how the Bible was written by 40+ people over a span of 1500+ years, yet it is one cohesive book. Some authors were farmers or shepherds, some were physicians and Kings. Yet they somehow managed to create one book that is still in print today. Don't you think it HAD to be by supernatural origin that the Bible was even formed in the first place?
On a side note, debating creationism vs "evolution" with someone who has never read the Bible is like debating Calculus with a preschooler. Its pointless.