The difficulty with all these interpretations hangs on the question whether this is the word of God or man’s word? Every reading of the Bible is an interpretation. Who decided which books belong in the bible? This was not decided until over 300 hundred years after Christ. Many of the Christian churches have different books in the Old Testament. How can you have justification from the texts themselves? There have many weird interpretations of the Bible. The Bible has had a history under the influence of God’s Spirit. The Bible should not be watered down.
God’s Spirit
Inspiration
These human authors worked under the influence of God’s Spirit. Yet at the same time, they were under the influence of their community and culture. Why were these stories and words used? Christians believe that the biblical phrases are God’s words in human terms in content and message. These writers believed that what they were writing was inspired by God.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 