And then you get to pretend the conclusion you wanted to reach is actually an external command and you had no choice in the matter, rather than admitting you’re imposing or choosing from among possible meanings.

But if you assume as a matter of doctrine it must have a single, unified, consistent meaning, this gives you enormous lattitude to assemble whatever meaning you like by stitching together passages congenial to your goals, while ignoring or negotiaring away inconvenient ones.

In English: “The” Bible is a compilation of dozens of texts composed by dozens of different authors composed over the span of a millenium and change. Unsurprisingly, it contains a huge variety of different and sometimes contradictory perspectives...