As one who had an acquaintance with the occult before (in a tempest) becoming a believer, I can’t understand a church that believes the bible less deeply than some people believe horoscopes and Ouija boards and Edgar Cayce... I just can’t.
Of course you have to pay attention to the manner of speaking. Nobody ever said to treat it like a wooden textbook. But again, weirdly enough, our occultists could teach Christians something about that... they will look for poetry where poetry is fit, for history where history is fit, etc. But they will never get “NOTHING” out of the alleged source material, in fact they will get every ounce of meaning they can extract, and not hand wave it away as trivia. Now if Satan’s followers can do this... why not God’s? It is to hang one’s head in shame and then return to the Lord and beg for a more attentive state of mind!
Well, since you are talking about some church other than the one I belong to, this isn't very interesting to me.