A very excellent article. But don’t expect it to change any minds.
I avoid that one like the plague.
BTW, in ancient times to ascertain and prove the legitimacy of the heir to the throne it was COMMON for palace officers and servants to OBSERVE and record acts of sexual congress among the royals and their consorts.
No privacy there.
We have an attestation in the Bible regarding this matter. The writers were inspired to include that attestation to satisfy the need for an observation ~ like this was about THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE ~
An earlier messianic figure, Moses, ended up in the care of the King's daughter ~ we all recall that ~ much like Sargon who was also found in the reeds. Let's say those stories are independent of each other, we have a VIRGIN and CHILD in the person of Moses and his adoptive mother, plus a mechanism that ties him to the Hebrews.
Again, this is an attestation to the royal status of Moses within both the Hebrew traditions and the Egyptian traditions, and you can't hardly beat that no matter who you are.
The Egyptians were also big time into the Mother and Child motif.
Since we are modern people with science to guide us we would do DNA tests in case of doubt.
>>A very excellent article. But don’t expect it to change any minds.<<
I think it will, actually. I just don’t think it will change a lot of minds. My mind has been changed by several articles like this. Of course, part of the process is re-evaluating my beliefs within the scope of the article and from what information sources I formed my original opinion.
There are sincere Catholics (and protestants) that will do the same here. At the very least, they will begin asking their spiritual leaders about this. Of course, this sort of questioning, and the lack of satisfactory answers, is exactly what caused my wife to leave the Catholic church to begin with.