[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

Hope I'm not queering your pitch but there's a third possibility: gets bandied around a bit these days: The Bible as simply descriptive of the carryings-on of ethically compromised boors eventually written down by intellectually challenged scribes to prop up their own deficient regime.

One could argue that 1, 2 and 3 are subsets of eachother - as long as Rules are obeyed it's all good. We can always look to the Great Book for specific wisdom: when a path is blocked, try another path or push harder on the same path, whatever works. God moves in mysterious ways.