In that sense the mind is the wrong tool for the job.
Why? Because you have to believe to understand something? Do you know how science works? You first have a working hypothesis, and then use facts and tests to check whether this working hypothesis is correct. If it is not correct, it will be discarded and a new hypothesis will be put forward. If it is correct, one does further tests, searches on, until the hypothesis becomes a relative certainty.
And that's how I work.
I make the thesis that God exists. Now, using facts, scientific research and similar sources, I am trying to substantiate or refute this thesis. And I come to the conclusion that God exists. This has little to do with faith, but much with curiosity and the search for the truth.
And so I do with the Bible. For example:
In the Old Testament, but also in the New Testament, the term abominations often appears. I have dealt with the word, its origin and its possibilities of meaning. Here is the result:
The people of Israel were the people of God, "his people" ("property"?), who should stay away from all the other influences of a pagan temptation that surrounds them, as Leviticus 18:1-5 so well describes.
This commandment of purity/sanctification was intended only for the Jews as the chosen people of God, so that they should distinguish themselves from other peoples. For no one else! Neither for Christians, nor for Muslims, or any other religion that believes in the God of the Israelites.
The law of the Jews can be divided into the following groups:
Moral laws such as the 10 Commandments
Civil laws that should regulate coexistence
Health laws (e.g. on leprosy)
Ceremonial laws, such as all victim laws
Everything about the ceremonial laws revolved around the Messiah that the Jews expected. These laws stated which sacrifice had to be paid to be clean of sins, often taking a Lamb as a symbol of the Messiah as the "Lamb of God" to remove the sins of the world from it. With the death of Jesus, according to the Christian view, its meaning would disappear, since Jesus would fulfill this law.
The word abomination, what would it means? Moral law? Civil law? Or ceremonial law? What do you mean?
Let us look at the word 'abomination', if it can give us any clue.
In the Hebrew language, "abomination" is translated as "Toevah" (תֹּועֵבָה), which means that God abhors something, something that is unclean. Thus, this refers to a ritual impurities, not a moral sin, which would have to be translated as Hebrew "Zimah". The Septuagint correctly translates the word abomination with the word "bdelygma," which describes a ritual impurity, not "anomia," which stands for transgression and sin. Thus, a woman who menstruated, also called an abomination, is called unclean, and she was not allowed to enter the temple in this state, but she was not sinful because of it. Toevah is also often used to describe idolatry.
That is why I asked you "Have you pondered on why Jesus knowingly chose to be hideously executed - what did that really achieve?"
According to all the sources available to me, something was interpreted into the death of Jesus by his disciples, which the facts (Roman and Jewish writings of eyewitnesses) do not give. For both the Jews of the time and the Romans, Jesus was a troublemaker, a terrorist and, at best, a prophet. But nothing more.
Even Muslims see Jesus as a prophet, but not as the Son of God.
I do believe that the facts speak for rather than against Jesus, but on the other hand there are still many unanswered questions.