In a previous post , I wrote about my experience growing up believing that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, and how that shaped my view of the world up until my spiritual awakening in 2020. I focused earlier at how I came to realize the book of Genesis contains two creatin stories, and the post focused primarily upon those stories. I would like to take a step back now, and focus on the entire first five books of the Bible, called the Pentateuch (Pent-a-Took). For those of you who really don't fancy looking too deeply at the Bible, I'll follow it up with some spiritual lessons I have since learned from Taoism. The viewpoint that I grew up with is that there was once a real person named Moses. This is believed by Fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and a shrinking number of Evangelical Christians, He lived somewhere back in the 4000s B.C. He led his people out of Egypt, but he also organized their culture, instituted a re...