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You are totally correct. But why does this have to be an either/or? The holism of God implies coherency. It is demonstrated in the first expressed purpose of the Torah (Deuteronomy 4:5-8) which was to NATURALLY create the "Good terrestrial Society," through the abidance of ALL the mitzvot: a Good Society which even neighbouring countries would recognize as such through its ONTOLOGICAL FRUITS, although they did not necessarily know the ETHICAL, JURIDICAL, and PRUDENTIAL MEANS. It is for this holistic reason that the Hebrews were told to neither add nor subtract from the provisions of this covenantal agreement.

"By their fruits, you will know them" is one of the ultimate empirical statements in Scriptures. It applies to ideas and ideologies as much as it does to persons. The "yeast principle" (Matthew 16) is another operative empirical statement which allows one to predict the corollary consequences of ideas.

In Romans 11:6, Paul is deploying the Logic Law of the Excluded Middle. Christ's mention of the altar and gift (Matthew 23) is likewise falsifying an existing "ecclesiastical" nostrum via rational incoherence.

And what are parables, if not the deployment of natural theology?

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