Exactly. Great point!

Now we don't have to use mental gymnastics attempting to tidy up all the biblical oddities to make the bible perfect.

Allowing for the divine discovery process by biblical writers—mistakes and all—also makes the bible more interesting and relatable, knowing the writers were trying to figure it out themselves—just like me. And they were!

Documenting God from a human perspective, even with derived historical or transcription errors, doesn’t negate or diminish God one bit. He is who he is, despite any of our opinions about him.