Much of what the old testaments believers i.e. (Gods people) were confronted with were Satans attempts to kill the Christ line.

If that is your view, Good for you! To me it is nothing more than a story. Whether it concerns real men, I have no way of confirming.

God did many things in representation to keep His people believing the promise of genesis 3:15.

Yes, God is attributed with many things, like if they kept his commandments, he would bring the rains. Taking other people' s spiritual experiences as the undisputed truth, to me, seems illogical and alien. Although, I feel a closer kinship to the Jesus teachings than to the Pauline or Moses stories.

David, when I was a small boy, really was a hero to me. However, when I reached the age of reason and started reading for myself, what really totally made me disgust him was the story about him cutting the muscles of the horses. That is cruelty of a an unfathomable nature. Or how about Samson, cutting of the dicks of dead soldiers. Sociopaths, the lot of them.

The law, all of it was a foreshadowing of Christ coming.

Yes, so says Paul. I found his reasonings to be nice, but I consider it rather pharisaic. A lot of noise with some useful things. What you just quoted is not one of them. That one is confirmation bias. Not of you, but of Paul, and he had a vested interest to opine as such. Try and find confirmation of what you just said in the OT. .... Only post hoc reconstruction can do that.

God had a heck of a time.....

I do not grasp your meaning ....Was it jolly good, did he have enough time to allow one of his angels to become a deceiving spirit ....or was it a terrible time?

And how would you know? Did he tell you? I have not heard such.

See, when I read these stories, I am reminded of all those stories from the holohoax. Stories of people who are backward in relation to modern technology and the modern world. (See Daniel: Sadrach, Mesach and Abednego)

Mary said to Gabriel "behold the handmade of the Lord" hand made is doulee (gr). Feminine for the sold out committed servant.

You know Koine Greek! Nice!

I have to laugh deviously, though. My girl told me something akin, after 1 week of having sex. ....But all kidding aside ... this is exactly the point is it not? She knows exactly what to say to her man. And I eat it, hook line and sinker. What an afrodisiac!

How would you value such a story today: Your soon to be wife comes to you and says: listen I am pregnant by holy spirit because an angel visited me ..... ? I think Joseph is a nice guy. And Mary must have been quite the milf.

And hence we got our Savior.

One of 14, I belief. I lost count. Sorry.