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SAR post #11: "Please, elaborate on the assumptions you use to determine which of God’s words are truth, and which are open to being part of an interpretation of truth."

Frapster post #61: "John 5:39"

Here is that verse:

"You study[c] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.
These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."

Jesus said the Old Testament talks about him, even though the word "Jesus" is never mentioned there.
So, clearly we are to interpret the Bible's words.
And here are other words on that subject:

Matthew 13:34:
"All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them."

Matthew 22:1-3:
"And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king..."

Mark 4:33:
"And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

Matthew 5:13:
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour...
"Ye are the light of the world."

Luke 13:19:
"It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it."

Clearly, God intends for us to seek and understand higher truths behind biblical metaphors.