Bravo, in fact, you should never stop questioning. Especially your new belief. Science will sell you fables as well, sure it will be corrected in 60 years time or so when a better theaory fits the facts that were observed, but remember that in order to accept a theory you have to believe it as well. True, you are handed facts which support a theory, but you can only really trust the Laws to be right, the rest are very, very well informed guesses. If you can hold your new belief to your new standards, I will never question your intent.
I don't think you said ignorant, baseless things every time you spoke, and I'm not sure calling the people that ridiculed your betters isn't what I'd call someone who happened to be right when (and if) you happened to be wrong. Even if you were saying something I didn't agree with, it was nice to have at least one person fighting with me. Intent was appreciated.
When I say things we can't imagine in ways we cannot fathom that logic can truthfully be put on any autonamous being separated by being in another body. I can no more discern your reasons for doing something than you can discern mine. What is different is that we haven't the slightest clue what he's like, and I'm not sure I trust all of the scripture all of the time on that matter. We don't understand how something like him might work, other than multi-dimensional existance. We can know eventually I suppose, provided he decides to not be all mysterious.
For your point on the origins on the universe, that is something that the world's religions and science mostly agree on. There was never a nothing. There was always something. Sure, some Catholics and Anglicans rewrote or misinterpreted the old testament, stating that god created the earth and the heavens. It actually starts with, "In the beginning, the World was in chaos." That does not paint a picture of nothingness being forged into our universe.
"Or is this simply telling you not to question God, that he is awesome, and that's all there is to it."
Yes, there are sects of Christiantiy that do just this. Do not question God, ever. Questioning God, means you question the authority of the bishops, archbishops, and popes. These things, in medeval times, were in fact used to control the ignorant who could not even read the bible. Unfortunately, they have found that sheep will fail to undestand what they read even as they keep the ignorant flock at their side. These organized practices are nothing new, and are a part of every institution where one man holds power over another.
"He always was, and always will be".
I debull****ify this down to, "He was here before us, more than that, we do not know."
"The way religions tend to shoo away legitimate questions has always concerned me."
Not me, ask away.
"If a God of a religion was indeed the true God, then why would he not be clear? If we are all meant to be given an equal chance to believe in him, then why rely on something so easily lost, reproduced or tampered with as a book, or word of mouth, to spread his messages?"
I don't know how much clearer appearing as a collum of pants-****ting, terror-inducing, fire from the sky complete with an angel that speaks for me because my voice would explode your head he can get. Man has always been the weak link in this equation. Organized religion does what it will with the texts and oral tradition, and this is why you MUST always question. Blind servitude from any of the Abrahamic religions is a disservice to their deity and a gross neglegence on their part of any covenant with a God. I'll address why not use a talking obelisk that serves as a personal cell phone call to god on demand wouldn't work a bit later.
"And why is everything so vague and devoid of coinciding fact, that there can be any doubt that he is the one true God?"
This one is rather simple, and very hard for someone with no faith to understand. If you believe without proof, you have faith. If you believe because of proof, your faith is meaningless, and not what God (at least in Christianity) is looking for. The Bible and Apocrypha mention this more than once. Regardless of whether or not its right, he seeks your undying devotion without proof, but he wants you to understand why it is you do this. Blind faith without belief is also useless.
"Why does Genesis say God created everything, but spoke of the Sun as if it weren't simply another of the billions of billions of stars he'd created? Why does an infinitely powerful God need a seventh day in order to rest? Does God tire, then?"
Why would he not? He is not perfect, nor infallable, the bible never makes him such. Sure he's Allmighty. He's also, in his own words, jealous, angry and wrathful. The God of the old testament is not a kindly thing when ired, whatever he is. If he was perfect, would have he created the imperfect qlippoth/demons, and almost perfect but useful angels, or the flawed but better than what came before humans? And yes, he is listed as tired. This idea of omnipotent and omnicient god comes from sects who needed to control people with a perfect infalable being, not from the scripture.
"Why do all religious texts apply their logic and knowledge only to things already known or believed at the time, and not to how things ARE as they've been PROVED to be, as far in the future as we are now? Why wouldn't the facts stay constant, if they were indeed, "Facts"."
There is a reason for that right in Genesis. By having Adam bite the fruit of knowledge, Eve caused mankind to become more like god in mind. In my mind, this means it opened up parts of our intellegence and curiosity that he never intended to flip on. We suddenly understood, and for whatever reason he had, he kicked us out into the world to toil the earth till the end of our days. I'm fairly sure that's what mankind still does, be that earth a farm, a factory, or a cubicle. I'm curious to say, I'd like to see what facts you culled from the bible and marked as not true. There aren't many facts to start with, as it is a collection of oral traditions that was eventually written down. Any truth or fact was ruined by the hands of man, not the fallacy of god.
I'm not saying I have all the answers. If that were the case I wouldn't be adminstrating an internet forum. I'm saying that you must quetsion, and I have asked some of these questions to myself.