The Bible is full of people who messed up badly. That’s not a bug; it’s the point.

The book is not a collection of role models. It is largely made up of people who lied, panicked, ran, cheated and wrecked things, and that is not an embarrassing feature to be worked around. If it were a record of admirable people behaving well, it would have nothing to say to you on your worst week. Being a mess is the normal condition of everybody in it.

The next time you decide you are too far gone to be included, read one of those stories properly. Look at what the person actually did, not the tidied version.