Einstein when asked- “Is there a god?” He said there has to be!
Nitpicking over what is in the Bible is fruitless- The whole of the Bible can be condensed into Jesus’s words which are from the Old T - Love the Lord God with all your heart, mind, and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
If it took Jesus to bring you to this realization or if you were taught it by being Jewish it doesn’t matter- I have studied what other “philosophies” say -Buddism ,Confuscis, Shinto… etc. The above statement is the only way the world will survive
The Great Commandment in some form eg, the Golden Rule, predates Christianity by millenia. The non dualist school, first exemplified by Shankara, though it is much older, explicates why the Great Commandment, the Golden Rule, the Law of Reciprocity, and the dictum to Know Thyself are fundamentally grounded in the same Truth.
Regarding Einstein:
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.” (Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.” (Albert Einstein)
“A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” (Albert Einstein, Religion and Science, New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.” (Albert Einstein, The World as I See It)
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbour such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.” (Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955)
“One strength of the Communist system … is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.” (Albert Einstein, Out Of My Later Years, 1950)
“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.” (Albert Einstein) Following his wife’s advice in responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the International Synagogue in New York, who had sent Einstein a cablegram bluntly demanding Do you believe in God? Quoted from and citation notes derived from Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? (draft: 2001), chapter 3.
