Heretical Thoughts:
The Christian Bible is incoherent, is of dubious historicity, teems with period regional mythology or lore, exhibits evolutionary manufacturing artifacts and lacks external, verifiable secular corroboration. As such, it hardly provides the foundation of a rational belief system.
One need only examine the various accounts of the resurrection of the Jesus character -- or for that matter, the details around his alleged birth and lineage -- to experience a deep sense of misgiving about the accuracy and consistency of the descriptions. As to the resurrection: who arrives at the tomb first? How many? Who is present? What happens next? When is the "resurrected" Jesus back in action, where and with whom? More fundamentally, why is there ANY variance in supposedly "inspired" recapitulations of these "historic" events?
With regard to the Jesus birth lineage, who has it correctly articulated -- Matthew or Luke? For that matter, does the "holy family" go to Egypt after the birth or no? And who has ever conducted a census in the manner described? Certainly not the Romans in the Levant, circa 0 CE, by other (verifiable at that) accounts.