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Ah, I didn't realize you yourself were religious. I thought you were just curious how doubt could lead to leaving a cult. I understand now why you think it wasn't an apt comparison with ML.
If God is real and has a plan, at this point I would argue that God is very much not equipped to be God, and contrary to the concept of being all-knowing, is very clearly making things up as He goes. I think Job is a good example of that, since God seems to realize that he actually fucked up pretty bad when Job rightly questions why his family was killed and why he had to suffer so arbitrarily despite believing in God fully, and God basically doesn't have an answer besides "Cause I'm powerful, bro. Look at all these giant beasts I control". Job's challenge seemed to shake God up pretty good, and make him decide to see what it was actually like to be one of the Humans he fucked with so much, so he decides to make Jesus so he can experience human mortality, which gives him a whole new appreciation for how messed up he'd been before, causing him to turn over a new leaf, being way less brutal and far more caring instead of, ya know, letting his followers dash babies against rocks like in the old testament (which leads into our next point).
That means every single baby and child not old enough to understand the concept of faith or Jesus went straight to hell, an unspeakably evil act {or, depending on your denomination, purgatory I guess).
Many religious people have claimed to have literal conversations with Jesus or God as part of their 1 on 1 relationship, are you saying they are lying or suffer from delusions? God's Will is an explanation to cope with the fact that praying is as good as a random coin flip; if the thing you prayed for happens, hurry! God answered your prayer! If it doesn't, guess it just wasn't his will, tough luck sport.
Generic Protestantism that promoted belief in the Trinity. Why do you ask?
Job was suffering as a test, when the test was over, his wealth was doubled. Jesus Christ was not a creation, he was always there.
Jesus had faith, and yes, Jesus descended into Hell for his battle with death, and rose victorious onto our mortal world 3 days later, and was transfigured into Heaven. And Jesus Christ was not born with original sin, as Mary was the virgin mother, who had been chosen by God. And
God may sometimes directly speak to you, when it is a dire situation, but He usually has many other ways to speak to you, and direct speech with God is extremely rare.
Please give Catholicism a try, Prototestantism is not the fullness of the Faith, and many who do not like it, leave Christianity as a whole.