You really don't put much effort into understanding the Bible.
Try to read it hermeneutically, meaning in context. Also, get a Bible that does not compress 60,000+ foreign words into a mere 16,000 English ones (in the case of the New Testament).
You will never understand the truth in the Bible until you put in decent effort. I have found many things that seem contradictory at first later become entirely synergistic. A ridiculously simple, juvenile example is "peace through war." The immature says, "of course you cannot have peace with war!"