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Gen 1 declares, as one example, that the sun is NOT a god, rather it was created. Same with the moon. This was contra some other ideas floating around the fertile crescent at the time.

There are many things that can be seen today as immoral in Torah, but at the time Torah was written they were a step into the Kingdom put in language that the original readers would understand. Atheists use the immoral Bible argument all the time, but that is because they view it out of its cultural context. Similarly, there are many things that can be seen as scientifically simplistic in Torah, but at the time Torah was written they were a step into the Kingdom put in language that the original readers would understand. Neither of these say the Torah is untrue, just that it was written in a specific culture and advanced that culture into the Kingdom as people read it, believed it, and followed it. Taking any text (let alone Bible verses) as some kind of stand alone truth outside of the culture they were written in risks misunderstanding them greatly, making them into something they were never intended to be.