Partly because I happen to like you in spite of all our brick bat tossing--at least I like several things about you--and certainly that you seem to pretty intensely purport to seek to serve God, Jesus The Christ, follow His Holy Spirit . . . but also because today you were quite touchingly kind toward me . . .
THEREFORE, I want to say the following as tenderly and respectfully as I can.
My own . . . standard . . . as well as I can construe it . . . is something along the following lines:
My standard is that
IF A PANEL OF HIGH QUALITY, FAIR-MINDED, SKILLFUL, BEST INFORMED SCHOLARS
were to program a computer with all the available knowledge weighted fair-mindedly in a way that both sides agreed was honorable and fitting
And then set on the task of arriving at the best summaries of the linguistic etc. meanings and evidences,
that the computer would arrive at the same conclusions . . . or very close to the same . . . that I have.
My passion for THE TRUTH is such, that I crave THE TRUTH regardless of the hazard to even life long biases or pet notions. I've been that way most of my life.
I realize that you likely do not see me that way. And, that's sad but understandable.
In any case, that's the kind of substrate in the back of my mind that I approach such issues with in virtually any kind of intellectual conflict.
FWIW.