LaDonna, I'm with you. I don't believe the author of all these contradictions was God. I believe that the authors of all these contradictions were old men doing the best they could to represent the religion of a man whom they didn't understand when he was walking among them, much less sixty years later or so. Or it's the opinion of one man who never personally knew Jesus at all.
And what a man that was, Paul. As an ex-Pharisee, and one who didn't seem to hold women in very high esteem, Paul has crippled christian society with the loss of input from one-half of its membership - arguably its most spiritual half. What a loss.
Think about it. Women are noted for their so-called "women's intuition." And that which vivifies the religious life, the Spirit, seems much more easy of approach through just such non-empirical techniques as intuition. (I think men who cultivate intuition are just as intuitive as women. Women seem naturally more open to intuitive insights than are men, who seem to want empirical data.)
Thus, in crediting the authorship of the chrisitan letters to God, we have lost two thousand years of the benefit of having the viewpoint and outlook of women in our spiritual thinking. A terrible loss in my estimation. And we are less compassionate a race of beings and less spiritually advanced for it as well.