“Even if they read the Bible it would be through their prism.”
Everyone does. The eye and the mind are the prism.
That said, the rest of your comments I totally agree with.
That said, the rest of your comments I totally agree with
Exactly. It takes the Holy Ghost to move us to understanding. We can't do it on our own. That was my point. So, here we have all these "unbelievers" attempting to rationalize the Bible based on other human writing. The Bible is God's Word; not man's. It can't be rationalized by man. Man's rationalization is meaningless. But yet we sure try...
That was my point.