I actually met god in a dark back corner of a busy street with the smelly stench of the city

I do need to apologize when I am wrong, Regardless if it was an unintentional harm or not. In the past, As an atheist, I had watched a few Atheist Experience programs on Youtube. Thank you for the suggestion, But personally they were not enjoyable to me, So I did not continue. Some people would not like the format, I just do not. If I found it interesting, I probably would still listen to it. I do like to read Dawkins, Though I hate watching and listening to him. Why, Because the amount of tension both groups exude makes me too anxious. I know Christians, Conservatives, Liberals etc. All do this, And I turn them off as well. I would rather read what they are saying anyway, And all of that tension is not there. You are right that the Trinity was not an understood concept in the Old Testament, And it is not written anywhere in the bible either, Including the New Testament. It was an invented term, As are all words, And was created to put a term to a concept that was seen in the bible. As for the spirit of God hovering over the water, The NIV, NLT, ESV, NASB, KJV, ASV, BSB, CSB, CEB, ASV, DBT, DRB, GWT, ISV, NET, NHEB, WEB, WBT and HCSB all include the term Spirit of God. The only I can find on BibleHub that do not are the OJB, And ISR versions which instead says Spirit of Elohim. You do have an arguing point that oral words and teachings in the bible may be forgotten, And the authorship is often unknown. I personally believe that much of the reason that the bible is written in poetic form is so that it can be remembered, And the reason for the parables is the same reason. I can summarize most parables I have read or heard easily, Though not all of them verbatim. It is a good memory tool. I am sure that you have much of the bible memorized, And a lot is due to it's poetry, Not necessarily the content. Examples like the Lord's Prayer, And quite a few Psalms like though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . , And to every season (turn, Turn, Turn). It was effective, And now I got the song stuck in your head. I know we differ on this point, But if man is solely responsible for the recording of the bible, You are absolutely correct that we would not know the actual words of Jesus, And many other things recorded in scripture. If one believes scripture to be "God Breathed", Than this would not be an issue, At least for them. I know you state that you have discussed religion with 22, 000 people, I don't know my figure, But it looks like from Yahoo Answers I had answered 3, 155 questions on that site alone, Embarrassingly for me, As they are very blasphemous, And sacrilegious, But by sure numbers of discussions, You have me beat. Some of my questions and answers were just the simple gotcha ones, Others were my own deep and thought out questions. If I asked the question more than once, Or if I already know the answer, For me at least, It was the fun gotcha question. You state, "Take my insults as satire, Laugh at them and have a good time with them. Obviously they cannot be taken seriously. " I should not assume, But based on my experience, It was for entertaining myself. If it wasn't fun, I wouldn't have used the site. My assumption is that you do get something out of these, Otherwise you would not be here. Sometimes the entertainment value was that fist clenching indignation (that I may be causing you right now), Sometimes the feeling of superiority, Sometimes just saying gotcha, And often just for intellectual stimulation. Either way, I got something out of it. This is only a curiosity point for me, If you divided the arguments you have had by the approximate number pages in the bible, You would have discussed each page 18 times, If of coarse you spent equal time on each page. I know you like the "Books of Moses, " so really those pages are probably of much more use to you than say the book of Haggai, So in reality those books you have argued these pages significantly more than 18 times each. My assumption (please forgive me as we all assume), Is that if you use the same books and arguments over and over, It may be because you would like to get a rise of someone. I don't know enough Hebrew to rightfully know the translation of dominion, Or creeping thing. I cannot say that it means sheer dominance in the way you define it, Or if all animals including bacteria, Or if it is limited to that which walks on the earth. If I knew the root word, I would tell you, But I don't. I do know that paleolithic man hunted megafauna for tens of thousands of years, And many archaeologists believe they were wiped from both Austrailia and the Americas shortly after the introduction of humans on these land masses. This dominion would have happened to all of the horses, Mastodons, Mammoths, Dire wolves, Cheetahs, Giant ground sloths, Giant beavers, Camels, Saber-toothed cats, And short-faced bears in the Americas. I think if we just look at large creatures alone, We have been wiping those of the face of the earth for quite some time now. This is not an endorsement for wiping out mammoths, So please do not take this as permission to do so. I know we differ on this, But I still am stuck on the idea that the written word is the best form of communication. I understand your reasoning, But I disagree. Without the bible being written, You could not ask the questions you do, You have got go have source to refer to. I could change my mind at any time and just claim I never heard it. Much as you ran out of characters, I have run out of time.