Your belief in a god is why I ask you, I don't believe in your god therefore I don't need answers to these questions to which there are no answers. (Your answer being I don't know why god decided to communicate through human writing and then stoped 2000 years ago) The bible if you go ahead and crack it open, is as full of perverse and absurd writing, as much as it is of unoriginal basic moral wisdom. Levitcus, Deutoromny, and even Ephesians include things like rules for sexual abuse and slavery among other destructive acts of a spiteful omnipotent being.
You do in fact belong to what is by definition a religion, even if you do not belong to a sect or church. If you believe the bible is the word of a god and that you can communicate with this metaphysical being, spirit, and his son through prayer making you a Christian.
I seek no answers from a metaphysical being, I have come to terms with the glaring probability that human race is a group of advanced mortal animals. The observable order of the known universe interests me. My gnosis is the expanse of space, matter, antimatter, art, expression, and that which we don't know.
Why is it that are you a follower of Jesus and not Zeus, or a Hindu, Muslim, Jew, or Buddhist? You are a product of your environment just as we all are. It just so turns out that you live in America, a Christian majority nation and happened to learn about a specific belief system and accepted it into your life. The concept of Jesus does not reach Jews, Muslims, Hindus, indigenous tribes, ect.... please stop going around saying that Jesus loves me or anyone else, you know no more or less about a god than anyone else.