The only way that can even come close to carrying weight is if you’re a henotheist. And if you are, then you need to reconcile your Pagan beliefs with your Christian beliefs. I’ve known people who have beliefs in astrology for the very same reason: The know that it is true.
Plus, internal knowing like that doesn’t mean much. If it did, then we wouldn’t have to have invented science.
I can’t cast the first stone on that one. 
Why?! Oh, you’re killing me! Just kidding. These things aren’t trivial by any means. Take capital formation and risk as an example. What we can accomplish in terms of helping the poor, fighting disease, and fighting things like localized drought are very much dependent on the wealth we have. Of course, politics and stuff can get in the way–don’t get me wrong about that–but if we don’t have food to give to the starving, then nothing else matters. But if a culture can’t afford to carry the burden of non-primary producers, then there will be no doctors, no science, etc.
All throughout human history we’ve been subject to the whim of nature in terms of feast or famine. Humanity had little concept of how wealth is created or how economic growth happens. Nor did we understand the nature of risk and how to minimize it. Untold suffering and death has been a result. Suppose that in ancient Egypt Ra came to the Pharoh and gave him the basics of capital markets, the use of capital, and the nature of risk. Instead of wasting unbelievable resources on tombs that didn’t even work, perhaps the Pharoh could have used the knowledge to productive infrastructure. What legacy would that Pharoh want to leave: A big ass tomb, or the world in the hands of his successor? That is the choice he would have been presented with. Or consider the scene from “The Man Who Would be King” where one village elder asks Connery for permission to raid another village because of localized drought. Instead of violence, Connery enacts a risk sharing scheme for the kingdom.
What does the bible have to say about this? If I recall correctly, it eschews lending at interest–hence Jews were the bankers in Europe for so long. The bible also seems to proscribe gambling. If god had taken a moment to add that insurance is the exact opposite of gambling and that it should be encouraged much suffering could have been avoided.
In other words, having a clear understanding of the basics of capital formation and risk, humanity could have been saved untold suffering.
So I don’t consider anything on the list to be padding. Nor do they constitute a wishlist to make the world perfect. We would still have to deal with each other; we would still have to deal with aging and death; we would still have to figure out our relationship to god. None of that stuff is diminished by a nominal effort by god to help us stamp out unnecessary suffering.
The bible is supposed to be divinely inspired, no? What evidence is there of that? I’ve heard that the poetry of the Koran is so wonderful that only god could have written it. The bible hardly qualifies even for that minimal standard. This is god we’re talking about. Creating a book that helps us with our real problems, that helps us really understand god’s creation, and that unambiguously guides our relations with god is not a logical impossibility. At least it’s not obvious to me. We’re not talking about god creating an immovable object and an unstoppable force.
The fact that anything in the bible can be considered bunk is not acceptable. The fact that instead of a short treatise on sanitation we get the unmitigated evil of the Book of Job does not suggest divine inspiration, but earthly creation. This is god’s word on how we are to live. If the simplest person can’t understand it, then it can’t be divinely inspired simply because the a loving creator wouldn’t abandon those in most need. The fact that it can be so widely and so extremely subject to interpretation says to me that god didn’t have a thing to do with it.
