That's true I wasn't there either. My version is only as difficult as 'assuming' the words are truthful, the penmanship is the same from Ge:1 to Re:22 despite there being 40 authors. That means the first move after finding one that doesn't make sense is to not spend too much time thinking about it, acknowledge what parts you did understand and keep reading (the list of passages that fit the particular subject rather that it being a front to back reading). The first time I read the NT I understood there was a 'plan' and it seemed like a pretty good one. Paul said 'he would put things in order once he came' was the reference I used, that part hasn't changed except some 25 years later I can go into quite a bit of detail of how the 'plan' actually unfolds. Since it requires using all the prophecies given from when Moses was leading the exodus.
Say there were 100 passages that were prophetic and every one fit into one form of picture and it did so with little or no forcing. The parts that don't make sense on the 3rd time you read a passage will 'fall into place' on one of the next reads as each time the passage comes up you should review it as other things you have read since then may alter the way you understand it with all the updates are in place. On the first few reads you are not going to connect the king's daughter in Da:11 to the harlot in Revelation 17. There are verses that do support they are both the same. That goes for the ones killed by Christ's sword in Re:19 and Isa:65 miles apart in the passages but Isaiah give the past, present and future of the ones called 'the rest' in Re:20. That is one example, how many would it take before you determined something 'unusual' was going on with the information blending and supporting the same events too nicely to be random. The 12 books after Daniel tell what the ending of Daniel is (change from the iron/clay kingdom to the eternal kingdom that starts with a war and then many people coming out of the literal grave. If that last part isn't the main theme then you might as well stop right there because it no longer represents the God of the Bible, supernatural or not. If the book says go left and you go right you are not going to be where you should be some 40 turns later. There is another 'unusual feature' of the Bible, the prophecies about the bruise to Satan's head are split up between all the authors of the OT and most of the NT so what form of encryption would that be if we were to send a 'lengthy message' to somebody and we didn't want it known or changed, mostly changed from the original form.
None of that was thought of before reading the passages many times over many years, the idea that they were too connected to not have a common author was 'assumed' even at the first read and that was determined by what I understood by reading the NT at least once and most likely Revelation a few times.
It also took me many years before I found the passage that gave a description of how captured female children were treated when they were captured. The description is given once but it would apply to every instance when a female was captured.
Even you would have to admit that it could only be the work of one author if the two verses below are meant to fit together to corm a complete thought rather than two fragments that has neither being very clear.
Re:6:2:
And I saw,
and behold a white horse:
and he that sat on him had a bow;
and a crown was given unto him:
and he went forth conquering,
and to conquer.
Isa:49:2:
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me,
and made me a polished shaft;
in his quiver hath he hid me;
