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  %LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS POSSIBILITIES IMPOSSIBLE 080307
  %ANCIENT SCRIPTURES SCIENTIFIC CULTURES LANGUAGES 080307
%DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES POINT VIEW UNDERSTANDING IT 080307
%ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES EXPECTATIONS TRADITIONS TEXT 080307

It is Literally-Impossible for the lightly educated people
of  a Modern Scientific-Culture --- to read the Scriptures
of an Ancient-and-Non-Scientific-Culture which:

 1.  Dealt with Facts-of-Daily-Agricultural-Life,
 2.  Military-Occupations,
 3.  Different-Spoken-and-Written Languages,
 4.  Engaged in Different Kinds of Story-Telling,
 5.  Used Different Epic-Stories of Mixed Gods and Heroes,
 6.  Used Similes, Allegories, Parables, Figures,
 7.  Dealt Differently with Domineering-Bullies,
 8.  Did not understand Global-Warming and Rising-Oceans,
 9.  Did not understand about Limited-Fuel-Supplies,
10.  Did  not  know  the risks  of  Chemical/Nuclear  War,
11.  Did not know about Astronomical/Biological Evolution,
12.  Did not know about reliable scientific descriptions,

and  understand  what the Ancient-Scriptures said to  them
and what wisdom they had about resolving conflicts between
Domineering-Bullies and Authentic-True-Lovers.

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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