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Not to be forgotten, this is early days of complex culture and writing, primate rural desert and mediterranean peoples, rivers and water dictated life.

People who came from deep dark history, lite only by storytelling, a few artifacts and totems and nothing else.   How many really let that soak it?

Especially people who don’t have any relation to dark skies, wide open landscapes, spending nights out in the open alone, let alone traveling across it.  Day to day life on the edge, every mistake having big consequences.  Stuff like that.  That’s who wrote these books.

I’ll bet some of the deep thinkers had visions and saw and felt the fear and glory of God.  Anyone here ever been near mountain tops when a storm and lightening comes through.  Talk about feeling GOD.  I’m serious.  Good stuff to weave into a story if you can tell from real experience.

It’s that sort of stuff they went through their entire lives, never netflix or night out on the town, or a vacation, same simple challenging day to day to day to die  –   which inspired these stories – after all story telling is as important as eating and drinking to humans.

Why can’t we imagine that the stories meant way different things to them, than they ever could to us.

How can we keep from imbuing their old world simplicity with our current reality, and our secret desires.

Over all “Christian consistency” is a great example of the lack of real substance.

Like one of these    Such is the Judeo-Christian Bible (archetype)

Adjust here and there, use different materials and you make anything you want manipulating the same basic model.

How can we expect