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I'm not going to go into detailed answers about the questions posted, but I will say that I take almost nothing at face value, most especially matters of spirituality and religion.
There are too many variants spouting too much crap at one another for any of them to be taken seriously.
If you read the old testament and then read the new testament, and you're supposed to believe that yahweh (the vengeful, stone them if they look at you sideways pillar of fire and salt god) and Jesus (Love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, sacrifice everything you have for your fellow man) are from the same source, and you can resolve that in your mind, then you have a better understanding than I or most people I have met.
My religious beliefs exist after a long and still developing period of study and soul-searching, and I accept them because they are what resonates within me. I wouldn't expect my specific spirituality to work for anyone else in the world.
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