lol. I sure hope your missing some of the \"prevailing thoughts among Orthodox\" .... The three that you listed seem absurd.
Could I meet you halfway between a personal interpretation and the elusive teachings of the Church Fathers on this subject ? This is a footnote for Leviticus 18:24 in the New Scofield Reference Edition [1967]:
\"This list of abominable practices which the Hebrews were to avoid vividly points out the utter degradation of Canaanite morality. Archaeological discoveries have brought many illustrations of this condition, which was so bad that a holy God had to order the complete extermination of the Canaanites. Several centuries earlier God had predicted that by this time the 'iniquity of the Amorites' would be full (Gen. 15:16). Archaeology illustrates the increasing moral degeneracy of Canaanitish civilization during this period.\"
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