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If the Bible is incapable of conveying that which we can comprehend (God cannot be both changing and unchanging), then the Bible is inadequate. It has no purpose.

The words of God are not merely text on papyrus, or sound waves in the air, or pixels on your monitor ---- the words of God are alive, they are spirit and they are life.

In the following passage, the people to whom Christ is speaking were physically hearing Him - but they were not, indeed they could not, spiritually hear Him:

Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. – John 8:43

Again, the words of God are spirit and life - they are food to us:

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. - John 6:63

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. – Matt 4:4

Jesus Christ is The Living Word of God - He is our food and our drink.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. – John 6:35

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. – John 1:1-4

His eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. – Revelation 19:12-13

This is why (on threads involving spiritual matters) you see me making a few remarks - some of them labeled "musings" and then quoting many Scriptures. The spirit and life are in His words, not mine. And I am loathe to add to - or subtract from - what He has said:

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. – Deuteronomy 4:2

Spiritual language is not carnal language.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. - I John 4:4-6

But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. I Cor 2:10-16

Oh, and pejoratives such as "gnostic" and "high-priestess" do not intimidate me at all and will not derail me from following the leading of the indwelling Spirit (Romans 8, John 15-17, et al.)

To God be the glory!