The Bible is out of sync. It does not flow and is clearly written by a variety of people from a vast cross section of humanity over thousands of years. It would have been good if it was comprehensible and not a conglomeration\/collection of stories that are not set in their true perspective and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One little book filled with hundreds of short stories, aphorisms, essays, fiction and fact all jumbled up together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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