What you expressed is one of the fascinating things in my own journey as well. What is unknown is more abundant than what we know. Even if we accept as facts what we read in the Bible (take Jericho, the magic of Moses, the three children in the fire, 40 years of a cloud cover), questions come to a reasonable mind.
Enter mathematics...
Looking at the evolution of mathematics, even the discovery and use of zero was a gigantic step. Only whole numbers formed the universe back then. After zero, things moved a little faster and different types of numbers were discovered. There are now quite a few types: integers, negative numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, real numbers, etc. Some of these are subcategories within categories. And then, to simplify things there is a category of complex numbers.
So we learned a few things since then...
A few years ago (actually sometime around the 1800s) mathematicians were realizing that there were more actual numbers than previously thought. One guy showed the obvious, that no matter how close two any numbers are, there is always room for at least another number in between. For example, between 2 and 3, there is at least one number (say 2.5). He was going deep into real numbers. Real numbers are basically all possible numbers.
Now imagine a number such as 2.58649386664238982 (this is a real number) and another number that is almost the same, except in the last digit: 2.58649386664238983. What this guy back in the 1800s said is that not matter how close two numbers are to each other (regardless of how many decimal digits they have) we can always squeeze a new number, different number, in between the other two (applying this same principle to evolution pretty much ruins the generative premise needed by Charlie Darwin for his evolution to work).
Back to the Bible...
When all we have is a bunch of factual points, we must fill in the blanks. The blanks are filled in by us, by our reason, by our intuition, by our experience. We use faith quite a bit, because we know that something that happened yesterday doesn't have to happen today again.
We know above means that we have gained certain conditions of maturity, that is learned and earned some maturity through experience. This is deceiving but real. We learned in time that some things repeat and that other things do not repeat themselves. We know that even if we eat, we will get hungry again. But other event may not repeat themselves, such as seeing that handsome man or that pretty girl in the corner of street A and Avenue C at 4:33 PM on a Wednesday.
And it is based to our particular experiences, thought patters, intuitions, reason and desires, that we give context to any given couple of facts. Try it with your friends. Give them a couple of unrelated facts and see what they think those facts mean.
Finding meaning is tricky, and we want to find meaning. So sometimes we invent. Sometimes others invent for us, and we have the likes of Berg. I have to add that not only religion is a source of amusement in this regard but also science. There is hot air everywhere. Which reminds me, I gotta go now and open the windows in my room, it is too hot. Bye.