In Man's Image.

I think we need to clarify our argument. Just because something can't yet be proven to NOT exist, does not mean it therefore DOES exist. It is erroneous, therefore, to argue along the lines of, "You can't disprove the divinity of Jesus." The burden of proof does not lie with me; I am not the one making fantastical claims about the suspension of the natural order. 
Another false equivalency is when people say, "there is just as much evidence to substantiate the existence of Jesus as there was for Socrates." 

The problem with this reasoning is that if it were proven Socrates did not exist, it makes no difference. However, if it were conclusively proven that Jesus didn't perform miracles, wasn't born of a virgin, or whose historical personage was a complete fabrication; this poses not only a crisis of faith, but a crisis of reality to billions of people who claim to follow the teachings of the historical Jesus. Their entire worldview would be shattered. The odd part is that there is not one shred of evidence beyond second and third-hand attestations to these supposed miracles which 'prove' he is divine and his teachings therefore true; and yet no one seems to require anything more by way of proof. Herein lies another inherent contradiction. We are told we must come to god or Jesus through faith alone; yet he had to physically prove to people 2000 years ago that he was god by performing miracles on every street corner. They didn't have to take it on faith; they got to witness the cheap parlor tricks, I mean Miracles, first-hand. Where is the faith in that?

The reason you're so good at coming up for answers to all these questions is that you're an expert at rationalizing the inconsistencies found within your faith because you've been at it for so long. The reason that there are so many inconsistencies and that they don't gel with everything we know about history, biology, chemistry, physics, and cosmology, is because they are nothing more than ancient myths. If you make the correct assumption that religion is man-made, then the books and teachings and the idea of faith for faith's sake cease to be mysterious; the ideas came from ignorance. 

The only reason religion and faith are such problems and conflict with rationality and reason is because you make the false assumption that an all-knowing creator had some hand in the affairs of man. Once you come to the realization that all the stories, all the supernatural claims, all the views of the afterlife, and all the theories of god(s) were fabricated by primitive men, they cease to be mysterious. "Why would god condemn homosexuality when it exists throughout nature? Why would god again and again explain exactly how and why women are an inferior creation? Why would god destroy every living creature in a flood? Why would god speak in riddles and condone such barbarity?" The answer is, plainly, he wouldn't. It's all make-believe.