My last attempt

HoustonSaint68 said

Yes, exactly.

And once you're removed from an absolutist view of reading all of the Bible literally, then you're in the realm of imperfect human interpretation. Thus rendering ANY interpretation, no matter how studied or in depth, potentially (or even likely) fallible.

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Exactly. Which is where the subjective, ‘I view it this way which is the best way I’ve found, therefore I’m able to make conjectures on what a god intends’ comes into play. People do it. One may disagree, but the Bible itself is a book filled with so called enlightenments from humans subject to their own emotions. How then is the Bible not looked at through a more skeptical lens?

I can’t for the life of me understand how some can confidently assert that scripture is not chock full of contradictions, or that those recognizing that fact simply don’t have the biblical knowledge necessary to comprehend it. That’s both haughty and irrational. And we come full circle to where a certain bit of confounding evidence against a god’s morality, etc comes into question and in comes the ‘you must read/you don’t understand the context’ nearly as consistently as death and taxes. It seems a narrative of ‘defend by any means necessary’ comes into play, even subconsciously, at some point by those who participate in this method of argument.