This is moving quite far from the main topic, but: Eye witnesses are actually really fallible even in fairly recent cases. You can easily manipulate how people

This is moving quite far from the main topic, but: Eye witnesses are actually really fallible even in fairly recent cases. You can easily manipulate how people remember scenes and how to interpret what they saw or heard. Google "eye witness fallibility". I think you need to go to the original texts to truly grok their meaning in their original context. I believe the King James bible is considered a literary masterpiece - and great literature, spiritual or not usually evokes feelings. The priesthood probably had the brightest literary minds of their time. Personally I just find it cool ancient literacy can evoke feelings through a span of thousands of years.