Four questions for Christians

[evenheathen]

God's incredibly specific laws of the OT were meant to distinguish the Jews as God's people who preserved God's law in a world that had forgotten it.

The specific laws of the OT were written by the people of the Jewish culture at the time to be directly influential to the people of that culture at that time. Interesting that Deuteronomy was "found" as a book of god's law at the same time as the other books redacted by Ezra were presented by the court of Josiah in Judah after the exile.

There is little, if any, mention of life after death in the OT, let alone promises of glory and joy,

This is because the concept of heaven and hell had not been invented yet in ancient Jewish culture. The idea of 'living on" was thought of as one's legacy, hence the importance of inheritance and blessings of the firstborn sons.

God never destroyed man itself. He destroyed many bad people, but he didn't start over. Humanity continued with ordinary Homo sapiens, just as it had before. Noah himself was a vessel of God preserving the human race.

Apologetics 101. God didn't kill people, people killed themselves using god as the weapon. Even though god loved all of those people as much as he loves you. It was just a different time back then. But god never changes.

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I didn't take the Bible as fact, but realized that it was authored by Christians. Do you disagree with that?
So if Christians say bad things about themselves in their own book, such events are more credible than events that support Christianity.

The whole point of religion, all religion, is to make sense of weird, bad shit happening around them in the natural world. Human tendency is pattern seeking and we tend to anthropomorphize what we don't understand. The whole point of christianity is to legitimize the horrible things that happen in a natural world and give hope to those that will believe. It's been the tendency of mankind to do this from the onset of sentience, hence a billion different religions. Christianity had the help of Rome.

As for the empty tomb, we are yet to find evidence of Christ's corpse having remained in the ground.

We are yet to find good evidence of the crucifixion of a significant christ ever happening.