When reading the Bible, you can’t just make up a reason why a verse doesn’t mean what it says, or that it means what you think it means to suit your own needs, to support your doctrine. The reason must be supported by other Scripture, and that Scripture by other Scripture, until based solely on the Bible, there can be no doubt that your interpretation is correct. Your interpretation must not contradict any other other Scripture. It is the ultimate goal would be a closed circle of logic, that affirms that your interpretation and your doctrine are correct. This will be consistent with the rest of the Bible because the Bible is consistent with itself, and thus your interpretation and your doctrine in this case are both absolutely correct, and are true because the Bible is God’s Word of truth, God can be subtle, and He is not Self-contradictory. This applies to both literal and figurative interpretations, and ferrets out what is literal and what is figurative, and if it is literal, how it is literal. How it is literal may sound unnecessary, but how do you interpret—“Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” John 6:54-56—with—“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.’ Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, ‘This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.'” Mark 14:22-24—with—“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.” John 1:1,2—“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14—the Bible is the Word and the Word became flesh, so reading and studying the Bible ‘is’ eating His flesh and drinking His blood—-“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”—by putting this all together, bread and wine communion has no bearing on, or power in salvation; rather, reading and studying the Bible does.
Literal interpretation of Genesis is the same way: days mean 6 literal 24 hour days, not millions or billions of years for man’s idea of evolution naturalism which also render the flood as an impotent judgement because evolution would say all life in its variety will naturalistically come back on its own by way of evolution. This also would make Noah’s ark unnecessary.
(See Blog(Book 7) The Myth of Evolution 16. Noah’s Ark vs. Evolution—Moses vs. Darwin)
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth 