text: Continued: There are many other passages that one could cite, but then I'm sure you know them all ( and have valid explanations as to how to excuse their literalness ). That's the trouble with the bible, it's all interpretation, contradiction, story telling, so much written by so many authors way after any possible facts. And attempting to a book written nearly 2000 years ago to todays world takes contortions only a Houdini could perform. And yet it's held up as the purported 'word of God'. No, it's the word of many all too fallible humans masqurading as the word of an omnipotent being.