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re: " It's not like the Bible is not filled with contradictions, factual errors and ambiguities."
What contradiction, factual error or ambiguity does Matthew 12:40 show?
re: "What possible difference could one more such example make?"
One more? I have yet to see even one example.
If you have never seen an example of a Biblical contradictions, factual error and ambiguity you have simply never honestly read the Bible.
In the instance of this thread there was a question of what the actual terms meant. The fact that there is a question with multiple responses is direct evidence of a Biblical ambiguity and that one of the responses if not both are factually wrong.