[tacticalogic]

See there, you know perfectly well what the text says.

You could easily have answered the question about it describing events that happened before anyone existed to witness and record them. Instead we have to play "20 questions" and make it like pulling teeth.

Why would I possibly want to adopt a methodology that results in that?

[xzins]

Actually, I was trying to get YOU to think your way through it in a biblically theological kind of way.

Of course, I already know the answers to the questions I’m asking. Would you expect anything else?

So, the narrator is recounting the story of certain events.

First, you need to know the details of the recounting.