If you think of the Bible as a library rather than a book the coherence (or lack of) becomes more evident. And remember that what books made it into that librar

If you think of the Bible as a library rather than a book the coherence (or lack of) becomes more evident. And remember that what books made it into that library ('Scripture') was hotly debated. Bart Ehrman is a good read on this and I always enjoyed Henry Chadwick on the early church to see how fungible the whole thing was for so long. I imagine Chadwick could be very outdated by now relative to modern scholarship since its a old book. The OT is heavily into Angry God (curses, massacres, suffering). The NT dials down the wrath in favor of politics and management (exhortatory epistles, belief systems). Allows for easy cherry picking to support an argument. If you were to look at my personal collection of books you would probably be able to infer the rough outline of my world view, even if no two books agreed 100%, talked about the same things, or even failed to contradict one another. But is there a coherent worldview in the Bible? Followers would claim, just like someone looking through my book stacks, that they've found it.