Thank you for a partial answer, and a good answer, as far as it went. However, you may recall that I requested your answer not include a comment on Catholicism. The point of the question to you was not to suggest that the Catholic Church or its magisterium do not have answers to these questions, but rather to understand your interpretation of scripture. Can you comment on how your theology addresses the rest of the questions? As you have already established that you disagree broadly with Catholicism, it is unnecessary for you to repeat this in every post. It would be more helpful for you to simply state your own theology without framing it in how you feel about Catholicism. Perhaps it might also be helpful, as a frame of reference, for you to provide the name of your own denomination, if it has one.
I try not to interpret scripture...The Book says there is water above the heaven and water below the heaven...That's not interpretation...That's believing what you read...But you have to put the scripture together to get a complete pirture...