For Clarity, Theists This Is How You Sound To Atheists

A lot of people think of the Bible as a "flat" book that was written at one time and for one specific audience. It's actually more like a portable library that contains a variety of different genres. Included in that library is Jewish mythology. Like other forms of mythology, it may or may not be rooted in some actual history, but the point of those books wasn't to record LITERAL history. Literal history wasn't very important to ancient people. History was only important inasmuch as it related to their current circumstances.  So they were looking to convey spiritual lessons more than what they believed to be 100% scientifically accurate.