Blzebub writes:
Rather than try to reconcile the innumerable and often ridiculous contradictions in the bible, wouldn't it be easier to accept that different parts of it were written by different people who had different ideas from one another at different times?
We
could accept that, yes. Personally, I prefer dealing with these types of questions on a hypothetical philosophical level rather than a Bible Study. But that would run us off topic, so I digress.....