Thanks for giving it your best.
I understand your ‘reasoning,’ though it doesn’t track with my notion of words and meanings.
And, I’m saddened to see you seemingly more or less excuse such outrageous assertions.
Sigh.
I appreciate the dialogues with you, too.
I enjoyed it very much! It took a lot of thought even to answer those few - stretching the brain is good!
Some of them - the ones I could not answer - troubled me greatly. The queen of hell one was a literal slap in the face, though I made a very weak stab at it.
The problem is we have The Word. No one said it would be easy to understand. Some is totally easy, some is so frustrating to read that is might as well be in Martian. And since we are all different, I might have no problem with something you need to pray long over, and you might sail through a section that is an impenetratable thicket of thorns to me.
Discussion and study helps, but not always.
Figure that is where faith, prayer and listening to God come in, and why I will never insult someone who has taken a different path to Truth (teasing is a different story!). God talks to me, sure, but he doesn’t tend to gossip about what he has told others.
Bless you and yours!