[Quix]

It has been a long time since I waded into all that. There have been clear examples but I forget the specifics. Perhaps some experts on that aspect of things will step forward hereon. If not, perhaps a web search would turn something up.

The scholarship of the experts is as high as that of anyone's.

But what is interesting to me whether sociologically or psychologically--why such an aversion to such a simple, easily understood truth?

God has shown a propensity for multiple layers of meaning in things from well before Christ's parables.

[jammer]

But what is interesting to me whether sociologically or psychologically--why such an aversion to such a simple, easily understood truth?

Hey, I have the book right here on my bookshelf. But to be of value, it has to have the property of predictability. It's like Nostradamus so far. Only looking back. I don't have an aversion. If that is simple, easily understood, or the truth, I can't see it.

[WyldKard]

God has shown a propensity for multiple layers of meaing in things from well before Christ's parables.

Ummm..yeah..if you happen to believe in the various layers of the Torah, and are a hardcore student of the Quaballa. Somehow, you don't strike me as a Jewish man past the age of 40...