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@SechelHayashar
You wrote: “If you’d be intellectually honest with yourself, you’d realize the fallacy of your argument. Go open a Gemara, and look how a classic stira between the gemaras statement and a possuk is resolved. Many times, it’ll be “the Tanna is speaking about this, and the possuk means this”. I’m not making chiddushim here, this is basic Jewish literacy.”
The Gemara is basing such statements on a received mesorah, a Torah Sh’Bal Peh. Moreover, there is a principal of ein mikroh yotzei midei peshuto. To claim that a posuk is actually referring to a subset of tzadikim when its simple meaning is otherwise, would, at the very least, require evidence of some kind. Finally, the Gemara itself lists only 4 people that lived without any aveiros. But according to the interpretation discussed above, wouldn’t there have to be at least one in every generation?