Quote (thundercock @ 1 Aug 2015 00:48)
It was obviously written by humans. Why would you think otherwise? These humans were divinely inspired by God though. You have to ask yourself, does the message change at all based on these discrepancies? I think Santara and several other people have given you perfectly valid explanations.
Maybe the message of the religion doesn't change, but the validity of it all does, though. At least for me. I assume that Christians actually believe everything that happened in the Bible is true. I just struggle with that idea a lot of times, especially when you consider 4 different people account for four different things on many fronts with the resurrection story, for example.
And it wasn't just small differences, like some you'd expect when you have 4 different people observing the same thing.