Bingowings said:

If you allow that level interpretive plasticity into scripture the whole thing is up for discussion.

You are as likely to find the truth of God in Star Wars (Gnosticism again).

This is why the Society Of Friends largely dismiss the Bible as legacy software and rely more on direct revelation from God.

My description of a cosmic tyrant is aimed at the Biblical literalists not people with a personal relationship with what they call God.

If you see scripture (and by that I mean all scripture) as myth and propaganda, not history the levels of author's intention become an obvious shield against literal reading of the text.

You should reread my most recent discussion with CP3S and see why I see things the way I do, with sort of a duplicate view. Of course the Bible has plasticity in its interpretation, else we wouldn't see so many different denominations and takes. Historically speaking, many biblical scholars see it as an inaccurate history. To try and fit it to one mold or another does it and the reader a disservice.