Typical thinking nowadays, you don't take the literal meaning, only the meaning that you can bend to make your argument sound legit.
Deal with my 'one-eyed men' argument first please.
Or, if you'd like another example - the Bible says that God is invisible. Yet, it also talks about the arm of the Lord. How do you reconcile the two? One is literal and one is figurative.
Context (and our own faulty thinking and prejudices) dictate how one interprets a passage.
Anyone that thinks they have a monopoly on the way the literature of any sort should be interrupted is silly. That is what makes it great - that it can be viewed and seen and thought about in different ways. Kind of like a many faceted diamond.
The word and concept of 'mystery' is in the Bible for a very good reason . . .
