This debate has raged for centuries without resolution because it boils down to the way in which one reads the text and reflects on tradition. It's amazing that many people can read the same text and see different meanings in it, but there you have it: the same words mean different things and hold different degrees of significance for different people.

Judaism has had the same debates for centuries, and they're all true. The rabbis said that when Torah was given at Sinai, that every person who stood there heard a slightly different version...therefore, in mysticism...it's referred to as Tor'ot (Torah's plural) :D