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In reply to the discussion: What Does Water Represent In The Bible? A Christian Study [View all]MineralMan
(147,575 posts)for almost any religious point of view, but one has to look for it. It's much easier to find that stuff on popular religious blog sites. There's more of it, it's less academic in nature, and you can generally find quotable statements to copy and paste in the first paragraphs of such postings.
If you don't care who wrote something or their qualifications, you can support almost any argument with links from some website or another.
Some people have their favorite religious blog sites, with hundreds of posts by authors of various backgrounds. Many of those sites are open to pretty much anyone who wishes to post on them. It's pretty easy to sign up to be an author on most such sites. I signed up on a couple of them, just to see if they cared who posts on them. Nope. I didn't intend to post, but they'd be happy to publish my rambling thoughts.
Citing "authorities" to support a wackdoodle idea is a classic strategy. Few will examine the credentials of your source. The Internet contains "experts" on everything, most of them soi disant experts, of course.
For example, the author of the second excerpt in the OP above, Michael Krauszer, is a "Ministerial Assistant," whatever that is. He also styles himself a "Social Media Manager" at some small church. I went to that person's LinkedIn page. Turns out he has a BA in English, just like me. No divinity school education, and not even an actual ordained minister. Hardly a theologian or expert on matters Biblical.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-krauszer-a51a9aa8/