There are questions that atheism doesn't answer.
Born and raised a Methodist, but not a good Methodist. From my early teens I had questions about the bible that got me yelled at, even cursed at. Paul was summoned to Jerusalem by James on charges of teaching contrary to scriptures and a close or even not very close reading of Paul's writings shows his near constant twisting and even full reversal of scriptures. Christians will not address this honestly. Paul said that the 'Law' was made a curse and done away with - the eternal, righteous, perfect word of God. Paul is clearly the ultimate authority of the Christian NT, even over Jesus because Paul twisted and reversed even the 'holy' words of Jesus. Christianity really should be called Paulianity, and in fact, there are many who do!
I then studied the history of the NT. So many re-edits made by so many unknown authors prove the NT can't be the inspired word of any god. I then turned to the OT. Contradictions between the OT and NT are so numerous. Then there's Deuteronomy 13 and all of the extra books added to the Pentateuch by the Jews. In the same book their god asks if his word is too hard to obey or too hard to understand, then I went through the other books of the OT and the other books of rabbinical Judaism that go to great lengths to explain the word of god that doesn't need any explanations ... hmm. It's clear that the Jews treated the Samaritans and the Karaites exactly as the Christians treated the Jews centuries later, as ignorant stupid people who refused to recognize the clear authority of the oppressors over them and even the word of their god. The Jews did it to the Samaritans and the Karaites. The Christians did it to the Jews and the Samaritans and the Karaites. The Muslims did it to the Christians. The Protestants did it to the Catholics. The Mormons did it. Then we have the 40,000 or so denominations of the Protestants, each one claiming to be the only 'true' Christians.
If it weren't for some of the oldest of the writings I could easily be an atheist.
Genesis 1:1, when accurately translated from Hebrew, states that in the 'head' the greatest power or strength fattened the heavens and the earth.
In the head, as in the headwaters of a cycle, the greatest power didn't create but fattened or expanded what was already there from a repetitious cycle as in the universe expanding then contracting and expanding over and over, analogous to the cycle of water; springs, to streams, to rivers, to oceans, to clouds, to rain, to aquifers, to springs which are considered to be the headwaters again.
That's such an accurate description of the big bang coming from mid-Bronze Age people, especially when the cultures around them claimed that the earth was formed from the bodies of dead gods or goddesses or bunches of other such mythologies. I can't help but find the only explanation for this to be supernatural, either that or there was a very scientifically advanced entity that told them, an earlier civilization or aliens.
Another question which comes from an equally ancient portion of the book of Proverbs is, Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, you sluggard; see her ways and become wise, for she has no chief, overseer, or ruler; yet she prepares her bread in the summer; she gathers her food in the harvest." The science of microbiology wasn't invented until just a couple hundred years ago while this, from the oldest portion of Proverbs, shows that these mid-Bronze Age tribesmen had knowledge they couldn't have known. Worker ants are all female, how could they have known? The queen is only an egg layer that does not direct any activities in the colony. Each ant just assumes the duties that are required of it for the benefit of the entire colony. How could these ancient people have known? There are no reasonable or logical explanations for them possessing this knowledge.
Pretty much all of the rest of the bible, the OT and the NT are clearly make believe and outright mythology, including the bloody tea parties with flesh cookies that Christians have with their imaginary friend.