It is important to distinguish scriptural metaphor from scriptural advice.
Scriptural advice has served us well.
There are many instances in which scripture portrays a distant historical event favorable to the current circumstances of the scholar writing the script.
In essence, use of level two knowledge in order to influence a level one audience.
A metaphor is used by a scholar because writing directly is dangerous.
For the scribe of the first testament, level two knowledge was often text written by one or more scribes from an earlier time.
Context is not always self-evident, especially when read in a later time.
Anyone who has read scriptural verses on their own discovers that quickly.
Each generation of a particular people, say Hebrews, has different challenges than the generations that preceded and followed.
The meaning of words evolves as the successive generations come and go.
The current interpretation of the same scriptural context changes over long periods of time.
The first and second testament scripture are different beyond Christ's ministry because second testament canon ends in the 5th century AD but there is 'scriptural' text available to the current day.
The notion of accurately recording history appears in the second testament time frame.
Is it proper to not have canon about what Christ has to say after the 5th century AD?
That is, the works of Christ more than a millennium after the 5th century AD.
The reality of our time is that the human population has a variable range of ability to understand acquired knowledge and the bulk of the human population is poorly educated in the full extent of acquired knowledge.
Otherwise, there would not be the necessity to separate scriptural understanding into two different levels of knowledge about scriptural meaning.
Most Christians rely on first level (sermons) of scriptural understanding.
Changing the distribution of gifts including higher average intellect in the human population is not likely to be achieved in the immediate future but higher ability to understand all legitimate knowledge for the bulk of the human population is possible.
However, each human culture is biased to perpetuate minimal elite and privileged members of that culture (to minimize elite competition) with mechanisms to undermine change.
Church congregations could be the agent of change by tempering the distinction between first and second level of scriptural understanding toward the higher level of understanding.
That, of course, would mean fostering a better use of the intellect in the overall human population for all forms of legitimate knowledge not just scriptural.
That will be the reality of Christianity in the future when all humans control their fate.
Probably part of Christ's agenda for humanity.
