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One reason The Bible can be difficult to understand is that it is full of contradictions. We expect different books written by different authors to contain differences, even contradictions, but there is a common view that the Bible is infallible and can not contain contradictions. Once we realise that the bible is really just a collection of books by different authors and that it therefore can contain inconsistencies, it begins to be much easier to read.

Another reason the Bible can be difficult to understand is that the Old Testament contains many 'doublets', in which the same story is told in two different ways by two different authors in what is now the same book. Thus, the story of Noah is a complex story that at one time seems to say that the Flood lasted forty days, but also that the Flood lasted one whole year. When the two stories are separated, each is seen as a simple and yet complete account of the biblical Flood.

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