Good thoughts, Bill. That goes to my ambivalence about how to interpret Psalms, moreso than Genesis. I seem Psalms quoted as prescriptive on a daily basis as being straight from the mouth of God, yet the next Psalm is about dashing babies against the rocks etc. and is obviously not God’s words, but is the cry of man reaching out to God. Jesus quoted Psalms often which complicates matters, but then why should it as Jesus was also human, reaching out to the Father- but that is another post. In any case, how do we decide which words are directed from God, and which words are man’s words directed to God? Is seems the answer is “Whatever you feel it sounds like” but that is not very satisfying.
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