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Yes, I regularly read the scholar's direct translations. Jesus' reference to hell is a literal place, especially told from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Satan is also mentioned from Genesis to Revelation and multiple times by Jesus in the New testament. I know this because I have actually read the Bible and not watched tiktoks making up BS. And "I don't like the character of God from my cherrypicking of the Bible" isn't actually a bearing on whether or not He is real.
The Bible's legitimacy isn't in the oldness, it lies within textual criticism and undesigned coincidences, the early Church, tiny details here and there, manuscript comparisons (for example, we have more examples of Jesus written about Him from the time He was on earth than we do about many Historical figures or facts that are seen as factual)
Most historians and scholars agree on the existence of Jesus, and that He was executed under Pontius Pilate and that His grave was found empty. The 12 disciples ended up dying for preaching the idea that He rose from the dead, so it's unlikely that they staged it. They also had nothing to gain from perpetuating a farce like this either. Even non Christian sources outside of the Bible report of Jesus' existence, some even just put His miracles down as "sorcery" instead of slight of hand.
I became a Christian because I realised that the whole death and resurrection of Jesus would have had to be some form of extremely elaborate hoax, and the Four Evangelists and St Paul really believed in what they were writing about to be true.