Q&A: Is the Holy Bible meant to be taken literally?

The Bible contains many contradictions and many events proved to be false or having no real historical evidence.  In Psalms 145:9, it says: "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works."  However on multiple occasions, he commits acts of murder and actively incites war between his subjects and favors one army over the other.  In Isaiah 14:21, it says: "Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities," yet, in Deuteronomy 24:16, it says: "Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin."  In the same testament, God is in contradiction about what he says, or his people say different things from him, etc.  Also of note, in Genesis,, on the first day of creation, God creates light, but isn't until the fourth day that he creates the sun and the other stars.  With all the errors, it seems to suggest that God did not write or divinely inspire the Bible.  It seems more logical to say that the Bible was a collection of writing from different authors without any contact with the others.  That said, I consider the only piece of wording that can and should be taken from the Bible is the morals within it.  The secular or earthly commandants of the Ten Commandants are a good set of morals, and Jesus preached a brotherly love ethics that draws parallels with other classical ethical philosophers like Socrates.