It was written to the original audience; it was written for everyone.
That has very little to do with a worldview. Worldviews revolve far more around concepts such as how to communicate truth, what the cosmos is like, what makes something trustworthy. In the modern worldview in the West, those can be roughly answered as “objective reporting”, “astronomy”, and “correct data” – but in the ancient word those weren’t even in consideration. In the ancient near east the answers were more like, “the right story forms”, “what we all see with our eyes”, and “who it came from”. Objective reporting would have been a totally alien idea, astronomy would be amusing, and correct data would have been a baffling concept. And when we force our criteria on these things onto ancient literature, we miss the message.
Which believers? Those who think that what the text looks like in English is what it really is make up a definite minority; most Christians grasp that the opening of Genesis was not meant literally and that none of scripture is meant to talk science.
“Unseen”? Well, I suppose we can’t see Moses, or Solomon, or Baruch, or the scribes who wrote down what Isaiah and others said, but that’s the only reason they are unseen.
Now if by “author” you mean God, well, that’s not biblical except for the places where it says “Thus says the LORD” or a similar phrase. Claiming God as the author of the whole thing cannot be supported from the scriptures themselves.
You think God say Moses and the rest down and explained who we would be, and gave them lessons in modern English concepts of the universe, so that somehow they could fashion their writings more for us than for the actual audiences? God of course knew that we would eventually read it, but He expect us to do our homework and not lazily assume we know things we haven’t bothered to study.
God revealed His truth in the text. In order to understand it we have to let the text be what it is and not spin it into something it isn’t – and what it is is ancient literature written to ancient people and since God is not a God of confusion it is in forms they would understand.
This is called being wise in your own eyes: the words only have meaning in the context in which they were spoken or written. To think you can understand words without knowing their context is sheer arrogance.
Reading it in English without understanding what you say you don’t need throws away the vast majority of the message and replaces it with uneducated musings that have no connection with what the text was intended by the writer the Holy spirit chose and prepared to communicate.
But ignoring the original external context makes it less than human literature, it treats it like a children’s story book you can make mean whatever you wish. The scriptures are more than human literature, but they are never less than that.’
Pretending has nothing to do with it. The original writer didn’t have that knowledge that we (think) we have, so in the text it doesn’t exist. It’s not a magic code book talking about things the writer didn’t even know about – that would require altering the mind of the writer, which is what demons do, not God.
Changing the subject is dishonest and disrespectful.
Because it’s not that kind of literature. The kind of literature you’re trying to make it be didn’t even exist back then.
Those are all in the Gilgamesh Epic as well, but it isn’t about those things either.
Only very incidentally – they are items in stories told in very specific ways to communicate theological truths to ancient people in ways they would recognize. It is not about those things any more than When You Wish Upon A Star is about astronomy or Somewhere Over the Rainbow is about weather.
You left out the oldest meaning:
empty, trackless waste
BTW, you can cut and paste Hebrew from BDB in most online versions – just be careful if copying multiple words because there can be code embedded that makes things get weird.
Yes – the ones that are built into the literary types used.
Unneeded because I understand what the original literary types that the writer chosen by the Holy Spirit used and how those convey meaning.
Then you should endeavor to learn what the scripture actually says instead of assuming you can do that without doing the homework.
Actually you read what you think the words are because you ignore their context.
Not if you’re reading in English, and not even if you’re reading the original unless you know how people back then communicated. But very little actually qualifies as myth, though there’s a lot of mythologized history, e.g. the Tower story in Genesis 11 – that’s a fascinating one because all the ‘mundane’ details in it are correct as history, but it took the inspired writer to make it talk theology. And BTW, there’s very little actual history in the scriptures, but there’s gobs of theologized history.
unaware of the jewish hygiene fetish and hoe those sacred vessels had to be filled and how they had to be protected from fouling.