I live in 2021.

Not 4 contradictions - at least 144 on cursory inspection.

The problem with a literal interpretation of the bible is not only its absurdity but that it throws the baby out with the bathwater. Whatever good messages the book might contain is obscured by an all or nothing approach. It antagonises the atheist, agnostic and vaguely spiritual alike.
Now if you think that the bible holds no interest for you in any shape whatsoever? consider this. The old testament for all its flaws is a chronicle of a peoples transition from a nomadic existence to an agricultural one. Would be as dismissive of Australian aboriginal dream time or native American oral traditions?
We use ancient Greek stories of the gods all the time. It is our resentment of religious indoctrination that stops us from using the bible to illustrate a point.
The new testament implores us to act with personal compassion and is a-political. Despite the heavily charged political situation in Judea at that time. eg. The good Samaritan is a tale worth telling and repeating to many an alt-right Christian.

That is the trick to its popularity, if you cherry pick, you can find a bit which agrees with you whatever you wish. Then you can say. "See I must be right, it says so in the Bible."

All very true and well put. Again I write that the bible as we know it today contains 66 individual books all written at different times by different authors. These books were never intended to be bound together as one volume. If you are Catholic there are more books. These books came to be bound as one some 300 plus years after the time of Jesus. This was by decree and decided exclusively by religious people who never even saw or knew Jesus. How could it be accurate in any way? The big bible book was given a beginning and an end simply because books are assumed to have a beginning and an end. Evangelicals and others would be pissed to find that this book is not telling their future. It gets maniacal when you see that government policies have been and are continuing to be built around this nonsense.

Google search - psychology of eye witness contradiction

Then, what people often do that is not logical is to assume that biblical reference to "the word of God" is meaning Zues wrote the bible is incorrect.

The people are the gods. The people being gods wrote the biblical text and collectively it is referred to as "the word of God".

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods"’? John 10:34

I am no expert on apologizing for errors in biblical text but a major factor is that copying machines were not avaliable 1000s of years ago and copies were done by hand. This is as I understand it to be a major source for many of the apparent contradictions.

565 contradictions, according to the skeptics annotated bible
[skepticsannotatedbible.com]