Faith and Compromise

This past week at work I had an interesting conversation with one of the guys. He was telling me how he wondered how anyone stayed a Christian at seminary. After all, all the history of the Bible and the Christian faith is totally torn apart in seminary, isn't it? My response was that it didn't seem to matter- if God can do anything, why can't he use a bunch of different people to put together the Bible? The chapter in the Matthews book made me think of this conversation. He seems to disprove much of what many church goers believe. The exodus may not have happened and even if it all did,  the histories we have of it are changed and formed by the culture of those documenting it. But I don't really see the problem with it. Our own thoughts are formed by the culture we live in. All of our stories are impacted by our analysis. Look at news sources- people only listen to those that they know follow their own political leanings. We emphasis according to what we believe. So what if the biblical writers did the same thing- emphasized the parts that are most relevant to their culture at the time? Does that change what we can learn from the Bible? Can't we still see what God is like  and how He wants to interact with us even with cultural emphasis or even embellishment?