not knowing

It seems like the questions always come at the end of a semester when I am already swamped and exhausted with school work. They seep into my mind like water from a spring, and I have to address them... or else.
I was having a conversation with one of my loved ones yesterday. As usual, we were arguing about politics and religion and the Bible. I don't really have huge problems with any of those, but I have my opinions, and I think its a waste to just sit there and agree with everyone when you really don't. It's a disservice to myself. We started talking about the validity of the Bible. I am skeptical of the Bible because of a few things: who wrote it, actually, I know, a bunch of different authors, but did they all have the same idea? And if you say it was ordained by God, that's circular, and no one is going to believe you in academia. Second question, who decided what was to go in the Bible? Who took a look at all those dead sea scrolls and said, "yes, take this one, but no, don't put that one in there?" How did the stories of the Bible get passed down? And what about the translation. Can we be sure it is correct? Can we be sure an author really meant one thing when we know words have so many meanings?
The person I was talking with eventually got frustrated with me and said, "Look, Callie, you're just going to have to believe some things without question. If you don't, you'll be all sorts of messed up and everytime someone says something that is contradicting to the Bible, you'll be confused." First of all, I can't believe anything without question. Isn't that what God made us to do? If he didn't want us to question and reason and discover who He is, he would have made us clones, or computers, aimlessly doing things for His good. But he didn't. I don't believe you should fear the not knowing. If you fear not knowing something concretely, the fear will eat you a live a lot quicker than the doubt will. You have to embrace it, to turn it over and over and look at it, to discover what it is that you don't know so you can think about it and open your mind to bigger things. That's what leads to knowing and certainty... It seems ironic that doubt could lead to certainty, but, I guess life is ironic and it doesn't always turn out in a logical way, according to our plans.