Reading the Bible is different from reading history books.
Many fell to this error, i.e. considering the Bible as historically true, word for word. While it is true that there lots of historical elements contain in the Bible, always bear in mind that its purpose to bring people to faith and not to tell history.
Once you take the Bible as purely historical you would be encountering lots of problems. For example, how can the Creation Story was narrated by someone who was born some million years after the creation. Where can you see a talking snake as in the story of The Fall of Eve, where did Cain got his wife, did he come back in his home his old age to marry one of his siblings? Why do we have four different stories of Resurrection.
Once you take into account that the Bible is written as a literary work by different authors with different context, it's only then that you begun to understand the beauty in it.
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