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It was written in very basic form Hebrew, translated into Greek and then translated into English.

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Ever heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Actually you are more wrong than right...

Mule deer are the result of crossing blacktail deer and whitetails when they met after the whitetail population moved north along the Pacific coast and evolved into blacktails. The cross was between a whitetail doe and blacktail buck as proven by mitochondrial RNA which comes from the mothers' side only.

The reason it happened that way is the blacktail habit of chasing does and the whitetail habit of waiting for the does to come to them.

Valerius Geist is the one that ironed the wrinkles out of the theory.

Today we still have blacktails named as though they are subspecies of mule deer, but that is taxonomically incorrect.

Speciation does not have to be an adaptation to different environments at all. Many are documented where they simply utilized different aspects of the same environment.

Leather from sheep:goat hybrids is fairly easy to come by though expensive due to its very fine, but extremely durable wear characteristics...

just gets sillier and sillier.

Perhaps that is worth contemplating.

You told me what my reasoning is. You didn't ask me. Then you proceeded to destroy the strawman you built with your imaginary thought about what I think.

You mean that King Jim and the boys might not be strictly correct?

Work week reference.


I never have figured out where the thing about not cooking a lamb in it's mother's milk came from, except as a form of respect perhaps?

if you read thru Leviticus, quite often the text will say "Do not {do this or that} for I am the Lord your God."

As Israel was coming into the land, it was inhabited by idol worshipers and they observed many rituals for various religious reasons. One thing they did to increase the fertility of their herd was to boil a kid (baby goat) in its mother's milk.
God is telling Israelites not to do this because they aren't idol worshipers and should not do the things that idol worshipers do in their religious practices.
God is saying "I am the Lord YOUR God..... not that idol"

Does this apply to today?
Yes. not the literal boiling thing, but the principle. Basically, Don't live like lost people. Live your life in such a way that you (and the world) will know that I am the Lord YOUR God.

Much of the Levitical laws had to do with purposefully living life differently than idol worshipers.

There is some interesting history behind King James and his boys. I have been a history nut since I was a young boy and when I started studying the Bible I did not take it for it's word and decided to dive into the history of it and the characters involved with it.

Just before the beginning of King James rein inherited from a vicious and cruel mother there was a Bible written by the Calvinists for the common man and lowly servants to the Crown. This was the Geneva Bible Translated by John Calvin and his crew. It spread like wildfire and had to be stopped by authoritarians everywhere and here is why.

The Geneva Bible had a whole lot of footnotes suggesting the true purpose and meaning of the passages. There were a lot of anti-authoritarian ideals included in these footnotes explaining that all men were created equal and no man or government had the right to own another human by divine or blood right.

Of course this was not going to fly amongst the authoritarians and royalty everywhere because the masses were starting to "feel their own worth and equality" against those who they were supposed to serve. They were wising up and needed to be put back "into their place", Hence the King James Version that current religions still use to keep their subjects in submission.

After doing quite a bit of background on King James I found that historical fact about king James as a person is pretty scary. In reality he was one cruel and sick SOB(literally).

There are some current projects to revive the Geneva Bible, and the footnotes that objective minds might want to take a look at if they want to know more about these "footnotes" current sects would rather they did not read.

Hmmm. While there is much to recommend Calvinistic commentary, there are some doctrinal issues I have with him that are fairly significant and I grew up in a denominational mileau where the sun rose and set on Calvin. He was not a snowy white brother either.