You wrote:
“Vlad . . . we’ve known one another long enough that you don’t have to insult me.”
I didn’t.
“Kindly respond to the immemorial Sinaitic Tradition that G-d Himself wrote the Torah and dictated it to Moses letter-for-letter.”
That changes nothing that I said. You are making a 1 to 1 equivalent on something that doesn’t work and I BELIEVE THE SAME THING YOU DO and know what you’re doing is not logically sound.
“Please stop assuming that everyone believes Genesis evolved slowly and gradually via mythology, oral traditions, and redactions.”
Did I say ANY of that? Now who is insulting whom?
“If Genesis is G-d-dictated, then all the events it describes as historical events must be historical events, or else G-d (chas vechalilah!) is the author of falsehood.”
The flaw in your thinking is that the “events it describes” are described as “historical events”. That is your assumption.
“How can you continue to use the “Genesis was written centuries after the fact by others” with me, as long as you’ve known me?”
Moses did not live centuries after Adam and Eve? Are you serious?
“I am disappointed.”
You should be disappointed. You just said - even if you didn’t mean to - that Moses was alive at the same time as Adam and Eve. It is these continuous lapses in logical thinking that hurt your arguments.
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad . . . What on earth is wrong with you? Why aren't you reading what I'm writing?
I never said Moses was contemporaneous with Adam and Eve because Moses is not the author of the Torah--G-d is. And G-d was contemporaneous with Adam and Eve. Moses was merely a stenographer.
As a matter of fact, the Torah pre-existed the universe, which is merely derivative of Torah. All of history is merely the working out of the Torah G-d wrote before Creation.
Now . . . are you going to tell me again that I claim that "Moses was contemporaneous with Adam and Eve?"
If you believe just as I do, why do you insist that the events described in Genesis 1-11 (we are not concerned merely with Chapters 1-3 here) are not "obviously historic?" Why should the events of Genesis 1-11 be any less historic than anything in your gospels? Or for that matter, than anything after those eleven chapters?
You aren't making any sense here.