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It sounds like you want someone to tell you for certain that there either is/is not a God/Hell and how the universe as we know it came to be (ie what caused the Big Bang) and wrap it up in a box with a pretty bow and put it under your Christmas tree for you to open.
Guess what - we'd all like that!
No one knows these answers for sure. There IS a lot of evidence for the Big Bang even though you say you don't believe in it. You say you want the truth and that is the truth...we really can't help you if you ask a question, we give you an answer (supported by many forms of evidence), and you tell us, for the most part, that we're lying.
What was "before" that (yes, I know it's bad terminology but we all know what I mean) - no one knows.
Is there a god? No one knows but there is zero evidence for one. Same for hell.
You might feel better if you become a Deist for awhile while you try to figure things out. Sometimes it's scary for people to think they might be an atheist so soon after questioning their faith.
In the meantime I'd read up on the Big Bang and the universe in general. Watch Cosmos.
Here are some books to help you get started:
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe - Simon Singh
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Still reading Neil deGrasse Tyson's Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. Taking me a while since so much is just way over my head that it gets a bit much. Still, it's pretty interesting. Like, I learned why our voices get all high-pitched when we suck in helium.