The Bible was never to be taken so literially, it never was. The oldest bible in the world (dates around 6th century) doesn't even have half the stories in the KJV and has stories not even in the KJV. There are also the fact catholic church cherry picked everything to go in the bible, and excluded a lot of the books, especially those who don't recognise Jesus' divinity but that of him being a man.
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