Do you read the Bible empirically, that is, apart from personal bias and/or denominational interpretations?
I was brought up as a Catholic and never actually read the bible, until I was about 25. Catholics, have Sunday School and teach mostly the words and life of Jesus from the New Testament; Catechism. I learned about Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, Moses, Solomon, David and Goliath and other things through stories and the movies; Producer and Director Cecil B DeMille and the 10 Commandments.
It was not until had studied Carl Jung and became quite knowledgeable in collective human symbolism, that I read the bible in an attempt to apply my knowledge of symbolism, to see if I could explain the symbols of prophesy. It was for the challenge. It was through re-interpreting, what had always been assumed to be warning at the end of Revelations, not to add or take away from the words of Prophesy, was not as a warning, but a hint how to solve the mystery. I decided to read the Bible like a textbook and highlight everything connected to prophesy; first to last page. I hired a girl to type the hi-lighted sections into my late 1980's circa computer/word processor, printed it out, cut it up into quote size pieces, and started to rearranged them like a giant zig saw puzzle. All the data was alway there, but it had been cleverly blended.
I few months ago I presented my final puzzle, through the beginning of the third horsemen, but started to notice I messed up some of the symbolism and was no sure if I should rearrange things, or present it as I had done. So I stopped for the time being. The first two horsemen felt perfect, but after that I was not sure anymore, since my own experiences, after doing the puzzle, were like curses. It took time to heal.
I have my own unique spin on many aspects of the Bible, such as law is from Satan. Why else would Satan be placed in the tree of knowledge of good and evil; Satan and law go together. God never wanted Adam and Eve to that tree; law. They could talk to Satan, which is why he was there but not eat; buy into this sales pitch. People still choose law; share in that original sin.
I also have the original inference that after the six days of Creation, when God rested on the seventh day, he has yet to come back to work. He is still on the Sabbath rest. There is nowhere after that in the entire bible that says it is the eight day. Each of the first seven days are clearly labeled. This misunderstanding may have to do with a God day not the same as an earth day. Day one has no earth so there is only the God day, which was highly time dilated by early gravity and General Relativity. Science knowledge was also helpful.
But also, during the six days, the daily stages of creation were epic creation; make the universe; stabilize the quantum state to hydrogen, the galaxies, stars and planets, life, etc. By the end of day six, everything is done, and the universe only needs a maintenance crew while God rested. It is not until toward the end of Revelations that epic creation happens, once again, with a Divine bejeweled city coming down from the sky and later God makes a brand new heaven and earth. He is definitely back to work, then. That is day eight. Those are things only God can do.
Satan was in charge during the Sabbath rest, until he was or shall be thrown from heaven in Revelation. He was God's hired hand. That is why God put Satan in the tree and they got along fine. After Satan is fired, Jesus is groomed and starts to take over clearing the way for Dad, when he comes back to work. Jesus said nobody has seen the Father except the Son, which is what happens on the Sabbath. It a day of rest for the family and not work, when Dads teach their sons.
The Prophesy puzzle created my own unique bias for reinterpreting the rest of the Bible. Paul makes more sense, since he contrasts the children of the promise; by faith, and the children of the bonded woman; by the law. Maintenance guys Jesus and Satan.