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Informative links, thank you for sharing, here's what I found in one, that I thought was good to post:

"Yet despite these and other references associating Asherah with apostasy (for example, Exod 34:13; Deut 7:5; 12:3; Judg 3:7; 1 Kgs 18:19), and despite the fact that the Israelites are explicitly forbidden in Deut 16:21 to erect one of Asherah’s sacred poles beside an altar of YHWH, there are multiple indications in biblical tradition that many in ancient Israel did regard Asherah’s cult icon as an appropriate sacred symbol within the religion of YHWH. For example, one of Asherah’s sacred poles stood next to YHWH’s altar at Bethel, one of the two great cult sites of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Kgs 23:15). Another of Asherah’s sacred poles stood in that kingdom’s capital city, Samaria. The sacred pole of Samaria, moreover, which was erected during the reign of King Ahab (reigned 873–852 b.c.e.), was allowed to remain standing by the reformer King Jehu (1 Kgs 16:33; 2 Kgs 13:6), even though Jehu was generally at pains to remove all non-Yahwistic cults and cult imagery from the land. This fact suggests that Jehu perceived the sacred pole as appropriate in the worship of YHWH. "

Because the piercing of Christ's side and the water flowing from it goes together with the Woman named Eve 'mother of all the living' go together.

The other part of my reply was a more or less general statement not particularly in response to you I think I may have meant to quote another post with it...

That's a very unique take on the water flowing from Christ's side after the spear of destiny pierced his lungs. I've not heard nor thought of it that way before. Thank you.

That's fine.

Yeah, we don't want to end up as collateral damage.

I will presume to say no one intends to disrespect scripture in the least. In fact, we're discussing what is contained within scripture.
Also, I think to be fair to one another we need to remember that there are many different versions of the Bible published today. And many different variations over the centuries.

I think the passage, test the spirits , is a great wisdom that informs us, reminds us, that we are reading God's words to us when we open the Bible that man had everything to do with compiling. For the Christian God's Holy Spirit lives within us and guides us into all His truth. I think if we begin to worship the Bible, to believe in the Bible, we will lose sight of the Father who pre-existed that text that man had everything to do with.
We know man wrote the Bible . I don't think we do ourselves any good service to ignore that.

The Book of Timothy chapter 3 and verses 16 & 17
All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.