The texts that don't match? Well, I don't really know if there's any that don't exactly match, but there are parts that are obviously opinionated pieces by the authors. Like Peter's letters, in Romans I think it talks about how he believed that women should be subordinate to men, but that's obviously not what God in the Bible wants, Jesus outright chose Mary to be one of his disciples for that reason. Some parts of the Bible are widely acknowledged as metaphors/parables/myth/etc. One of the things I remember learning that really shed some light on things was how the very beginning of Genesis isn't meant to be some literal recollection of how God made the universe, it's really just a poem. You can go ahead and look at it, it's structured just like that, and it ends with God creating Humanity, intending that God saved his best creation for last and that was Mankind. You've also got the story of Lot and his family who leave Sodom and Gomorrah before God destroys the cities. In that story God's angels warn them not to look back at the city as they leave or they will die. Lot's wife ended up looking back at the city and turned into a statue/pillar of salt. That's really just there to be an explanation for why the Salt Pillars in that region exist. [quote]How can you believe what you believe after writing what you wrote.[/quote] Let me ask you, how can you believe what you believe knowing that you don't have all the scientific answers to everything? That is how Christians believe what they believe. You don't know, it's a matter of faith, perhaps one belief requires somewhat more than the other, but they both need it in the end.