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I compare this with the one Jefferson wrote in his letters which he used selected verses to prove that Jesus was not an educated Jew.
This is how I read my first Bible at the age of 20, 1949, studying for my BA'50 in Latin-American Culture&Civilization.
Add a little spice to what it means to be spiritual. Add reading YHWH when appropriate to enliven your imagination of the conversations during this period on Earth around the Mediterranean and the existence of Herod's Temple complex which included a commercial existence. All kinds of pilgrims coming and doing business under the shadow of the Jerusalem temple. All the languages.
As a matter of fact it's a lot like it is today except put a 7 branch menorah, an eternal light and an ark containing the Sefer Torah in the Farthest Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, and it's the same
Look at the street signs
Moses said YHWH says that you don't destroy buildings you conquer, you use them. Deu:6:10-11.
Helena knew exactly how to rise above this by selecting the right Jewish prophet who wouldn't interfere with her son's claim to rule by Divine Right. King Henry the 8th competed for that right, thank goodness. Sura 3:3 and Sura 2:113 embraces all this
That makes all Egyptians and Iranians equal to me and you in education and all discussions about spirituality in the 21st Century because of Intelsat and ethernet. Magical Human Spirituality..