(July 24, 2018 at 9:54 am)Tizheruk Wrote:Quote:The Jews understood the Torah to be historical. I'm going with their take on what the writer intended. Your theory is less than obvious and needs a lot more than a weak comparison to another ancient book with vastly different provenance.No we really don't that's just your need to defend your fairy tales from ridicule
The Jews understood a number of things to be true. Christians are rather selective about which of those "truths" matter and which can be jettisoned.