Well, I see you've written another post while I was writing my long answer to you. I'm sorry, George, but I'm simply trying to be honest about how I personally arrived at my thinking, while others here wrongly think that by quoting the Bible they aren't giving their own personal interpretation. What you are calling humanistic reasoning I'm calling honesty. The Bible is absolutely authoritative, human beings aren't.

That's all I have time for at the moment, but apparently you don't want more discussion anyway.