The Bible as word-of-deity, divinely inspired and able to address any conceivable wrinkle of life, was like the gravity of my Christian faith. Everybody knew it was true, but we rarely discussed it, because everybody already knew it was true. What was the point in rehashing something that everybody took for granted?

Studying the Bible as literature for class, rather than looking to it for divine guidance and wisdom, forced me to abandon this major premise. At first, it was just an intellectual exercise; ignore your conditioned reverence for the text. Assume that it’s just another book, and read it as such. Don’t ignore internal contradictions, or chalk them up to the ineffability of heavenly wisdom. Treat them as you would in any other book, with a raised eyebrow and a firm “WTF?”

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