Colin, there is much more to the Scriptures than that and I
would suggest some courses in modern Biblical scholarship
before one attempts to make those passages normative for
the Scriptures.
3 whole books are minute passages?
As I am sure you know, i don't hold it as true anyway. However, some people do take it literally and use it to justify the ME situation, with refernece to the 'prmosied land' and the 'chosen people'. These books tell how the promised land was taken.
Ancient remnants of cultic, ritual language that was
overblown bs in its own day is NOT normative of the
Scriptures.
The whole idea that this ME situation is based on an idea based on these stories is pretty sick to say the least.
bw
colin
