You are intellectually dishonest! Amazing! There are cultural and different meanings to a word or phrase! Suppose someone reads thousand of years later a letter written about hot dogs then believes we literally ate our pet dogs. Thats what your doing in a your own way. Maybe Getting it wrong. I’ll fight for your right of free speech but that does not mean your absolutely right to declare that you understand it better than me. But thats why we live in america for now anyway. Until thats taken. May God guide us. Soon we might argue this in the same jail cell. Take care.
Verbal Tradition is where we got the Bible! You’re missing a lot when you don’t read the history. Look up a guy called Helvidius [380 A.D.] The many weird ideas that haunt some Protestant churches have occurred in the past only to resurface recently. Luther, Calvin, Wesley certainly didn’t agree with y’all. Dan Brown does though...as do many of the earth goddess believers. Strange company you keep!