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The key is that the OT is the attempt of humans to understand what was going on, and while many believe they got the kernel of truth right, the details are both fuzzy and/or figurative in many areas.
– OrangeDog
Commented Dec 21, 2022 at 12:58
@OrangeDog -- thanks for the comment, I have expanded the answer to discuss how one can respond to these apparent conflicts in the OT text.
– Dcleve
Commented Dec 22, 2022 at 16:37
Does two millennia count as several?
– OrangeDog
Commented Dec 22, 2022 at 21:45
@OrangeDog -- the pogroms of Marcionites, and of Cathars, were a millennia apart. Catholicism killed Marcionite heretics for about half a millennia after the Cathar crusades. Yes, more than one millennia is several.
– Dcleve
Commented Dec 22, 2022 at 22:56
I've never seen "several" used to mean "two", and most dictionaries agree with me.
– OrangeDog
Commented Dec 23, 2022 at 10:55

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