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  • I’m really interested in what these books meant to the people who compiled the bible. Presumably the people who choose these texts could read and understood they didn’t all exactly agree on everything. Your point about revelation for example is obviously silly because of course that’s how it’s written, but the important question is what did it come to mean to the early church? The book clearly isn’t a catechism so discerning what it meant to early Christians takes a lot more effort than simply reading it and even understanding the authors meaning. Most “prophecy” in the bible isn’t written as prophecy and you kinda gotta squint to even agree with Jesus explaining how something is a fulfilled prophecy.