When you view the bible from the angle of it being a repository of mythology and legend cobbled together from different sources and presented against a background of the occasional historical event (and the New Testament in particular being incredibly poor fan fiction of the Old), it's not at all surprising to find inaccuracies and contradictions. It's when someone starts taking them seriously instead of the plot holes that they would be in any other context that the mental gymnastics begin. Or worse.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
