UncleBuck said
My question is simply, if there were probably 100 to 150 authors that wrote the bible, and these authors didn’t even know each other.  How were they able to write a book that lasted for so many years?  How were they able to write stories, may not be 100% accurate with each other, but were really close to each other?  Obviously, they didn’t know each other but they were able to write stories that flowed so well with each other.  

Except that they don’t flow that well.

So if you read the Old Testament, the theological ideas of YHWH are so varied and inconsistent that you can’t possibly attempt to justify them. For example, Deuteronomy 32:8-9 talks about a whole divine council, with ‘elyon at the highest place dishing out to other gods a people group to rule, and he grants YHWH the people of Israel. However, later books of the Bible are adamant that YHWH is the one and only god.

Try to reconcile the Chaos creation account in Genesis 1:1-2:3, with the one recorded in Genesis 2:4-25. There is no way to reconcile those differences. The chronologies are different, the mythos about the world’s creation is different, and the theological implications are all different.

Try reconciling Job 19:13-20 (which talks about how his wife and children find him disgusting and his servants don’t listen) to Job 1:18-19 (where his children are all killed). They exhibit two different writers, with two different Job traditions.

The reason they made things seem, at least semi, consistent is because there were many redactors and editors who went through and changed what the people before said.

Finally, the reason that these works lasted is purely because of a series of religions that decided to preserve them. Homer’s epics survived, the Sumerian accounts survived, the Babylonian myths survived, the Greek myths survived. The Bible wasn’t special, except that a world religion formed around it that copied it (albeit poorly and altering it severely over time) a lot.