Question on how to build a character?
So recently my group has decided that we will all try learning 3.5 as we have heard about how it is the edition with the most customization, and because we were getting bored with 5e. The problem though is that one of my friends has a brother that gave us this massive flashdrive with basically every book in 3.5, and I'm struggling to wrap my head around how to make my character. I wanted to make a literal child of prophecy who from years of their name being used by the church to justify its crusades, murders, and enforcement of guidelines. I planned for them to be a barbarian as they think they are harnessing gods furry when in reality it is from there deep seeded rage against the church. I want to know on if there is a class that has similar abilities like a barbarian, but also has the chance for spell casting, or even if there simply is a better barbarian like class as so far from what I read they seem pretty lackluster to the spell casters in 3.5. Also any advice on character building would be much appreciated as while I have played dnd, this is my first time with 3.5