There were other issues too: The way the accounts
of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity
of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to
write a creative retelling
of Resurrection Day because each
of the gospel writers tell the
story so
differently, sometimes with contradictory details.
Or, to put it
differently, you may find it useful to think like an editor while
writing short
stories, but I wouldn't start a short
story to force this kind
of critical thinking on yourself.