You sound like me when I stood at the foot of Jesus, and He was preaching Paul. (Bear with me here, it was a dream). I ran around with my fingers in my ear, resisting Him, but He told me it was the sweetest part of the faith. And I also used to get mad at the Law, which Mary (Bear with me here, this is another dream) told me was necessary for defending the good.

Now, the Gospel is very nuanced, and very complex. You can’t have the Law without forgiveness. Or no one is saved. You also can’t have forgiveness, without the Law, or no one does what is right, and all men suffer.

But with regard to meats and holiday and festival, anything done in faith is good. If you don’t eat pork or rest on Saturday to the LORD’s glory, that’s your right to do as a Christian, and you do it for Christ. But, if you judge me, I have liberty in Christ to not worry about those things. To each man let him be fully convinced, but our hands are not to do violence, and our battle is within us, not in the world around us.

Solomon. He’s the most educated. A wiser man than Jesus or Daniel. At some point, wisdom becomes folly, but to be fully wise you have to know both sin and righteousness. Which some may say Christ became, when He took upon our sin in His flesh. So… again… it’s hard to say. But that’s why the Knowledge from the Tree was a sin, because man took on the moral agency that was reserved for those who are Judges. Of which, we’re actually forfeiting this world’s wisdom and judgment for Christ. So we’re becoming foolish in this world’s things, to attain the wisdom of Heaven.

I literally looked at about 30 artifacts from Egypt{}, from the Sinai peninsula, that had Hebrew inscriptions on them. So… yes, I did know that God’s name was El Yahweh. And I do know that a people group called the Habiru migrated out of Mesopotamia, into Egypt, and then finally settled into Canaan, after crossing the Red Sea. They created quite a stir, actually, enough for Pharaoh to attack them, and they were probably the same people called the “Sea Peoples” who destroyed the Hittites in the Bronze Age Collapse. I also know that there’s a lot of Egyptian references in the Torah and actual borrowed words from Late Bronze Age Egyptian in it. There’s a lot more than that.

A people group who were passed down a monotheistic culture migrated from Mesopotamia, into Egypt and then codified their religion in Canaan. That is what the evidence suggests. And then kept a concurrent record of all their kings and priests and judges from the time they conquered Canaan, even until this day.

As far as Jesus, the Gospels were written as early as 40AD he died in 31AD. We know this, because Paul accompanied Luke, and Luke met apostles such as Mary and John and Peter, and of course we have Papias telling us who wrote Mark and Matthew from St. John, and various surviving fragments tell is it was Papias who dictated the book from John, like Baruch did Jeremiah.

And the flood, there’s lots of evidence for that. The Bible talks about Pangea and Dinosaurs, and there’s also ancient artefacts that have dinosaurs on them.

When Israel separated from Judah, was Israel any less Hebrew? I think the schism of Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic is like that. Israel, Ephraim and Judah. Certainly, Israel went off and served Baal, but there were true saints among them, like Elisha and Elijah who contended Jezebel and Ahab.

I love reading Martyr's Mirror because it takes that subject, saying the church existed in a group called the Waldenses, but they have very detailed accounts of people's martyrdoms, and I see perfect theology in the Catholics--like uncondemnable--but they're in a position of power killing someone they have power over. It highlights the fact---as the same thing happened to Catholics in England in the 1600s--it's not Theology that saves you. It's charity, hope and faith. And I like that book because while it's a little persuaded to a wrong side--you can use postmodern interpretations to remove that thesis--you see pure Christian doctrine, and truly faithful people putting their lives on the line.

It's all about power. And right now, the power is in the Secular Authority, and it's like Rome again, where they're persecuting the WHOLE CHURCH. It's not people with good understanding of the Bible persecuting others with equal understanding, but people who have no idea what the Bible is, and are like Romans who called Christians Cannibals not understanding that wasn't what we were doing. Like people say priests engage in Catamism for God, but that's simply not true. They know it's a sin. It's written right in the New Testament.