"In your opinion…"
Yet, (if you'll re-read the post,) your original question has been asked, answered, debated, answered again, complained about, and then answered again. You just don't like the legit answer given to your original question.
Sorry- didn't mean to mix you up in it.
This is pretty good. Worth looking at. Thanks.
Shill, you'd be sucking your thumb sleeping right now if that guy hadn't engaged you in discussion. He's right about your lack of contemporaneous corroboration. If anyone in 600 B.C. thought your interpretation was true, they would have said so, and yes– records of extra-biblical commentary on the scripture go back at least that far, if not more. You simply have an opinion that is not shared by any of the Hebrews who lived at the time the Old Testament. (If anyone did, they never said so.) You also have a modern opimion not shared by Christian readers in New Testament times. (if anyone believed as you said, none of them wrote it down at all.) Now, you have 3,00 years of unbroken agreement as to the meaning of a document, and then there's your modern "opinion." In Forensics, they might call that a "Cold Case File," (but you have no evidence other than "muh opinion.")
Have you not moulded up the bread ENOUGH with this Graham Hancock nonsense?
I've seen this refuted so many times it is ridiculous!
STAHP IT.
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