Actually it is a construction on reality governed by your perceptions, assumptions, understandings, fantasies, inferences, extrapolations, rationalizations, interpretations etc. . . .
it is . . . at least . . . your reality on such issues.
It can’t be anything else in this mortal realm.
Whether your reality on such issues is whatever percent congruent with God’s TOTALLY TRUE reality on such issues is a whole ‘nother . . . issue.
IT APPEARS THAT there was enough of a struggle amidst the variety of possibilities . . . and it was enough of an intense emotional struggle . . . that by the time a position was settled on, it was grabbed with a fierce death grip that has little to do with any purported ‘objective’ Biblical reality on such matters.
That’s a bit sad, to me.
On matters which Scripture is not emphatically super clear on . . . I TRY to hold things much more loosely and wait and see what God confirms in ‘objective’ ‘tangible’ reality.
Time will tell, and so will the mark.