K: I'd much rather adopt a "Many Allowances" scenario. What are the many possibilities that can be read from the text, rather than the one way, and ONLY ONE way which the text ought to be read. In actuality, I think the important part God is more concerned with is the personal theological process, our being engaged on the topic, delighting in such issues, rather than who is necessarily right. That is, so long as the person puts Christ first, it's more like whatevs for it'll all be known in the end.
To me, our understandings and quest for the truth of these issues must begin with the question of whether we are debating things and texts that are somehow actually true. It doesn't matter so much that we know the specifics as to HOW they are true / how they played out so that the text is true. Because if they are not true at all, it's like debating a fictional book
supposedly based partly on some actual events, in which we can't know if it is even based upon ANY truth, and thus the debate wouldn't really matter. Because if I can't know that it is true at all, I really don't care to speculate upon parts I can't know anything about, as ultimately, it wouldn't really matter to me. I can't productively or purposely react to mere fictional echoes.
And that is why, although I lean toward old earth / progressive creationism, I well realize there may be a hybrid of possibilities about the text and how it all went down, that we may never know - least not in our earth time. But as ALL we know comes from Scripture, and everything we know about God's Holy character, His attributes and abilities, and about Jesus, come from this book of Scripture which makes many claims for itself about God's Word, His inspiration, and so a Bible that isn't reliable or that is filled with half-truths or a blend of distortions, myths, complete fabrications - even if it still does have portions of God's actual inspiration - I see that as worthless and unreliable - and very dangerous - because it would be indecipherable as to which is which. And I don't believe God has left us in that position, and there are good reasons to realize that it has been preserved - that we can, to a high percentage, determine what was originally written down.
Of course, to have received God's Word as protected down through history, means God had to guide the preservation - as well as have guided those He inspired - as to what to write. Flawed, mistake-prone human writers were precisely those who God inspired to write Scripture down. It's surely not how WE would have done it. We would have probably digitized all immediately and distributed it around the world instantly (if such things had been possible for us). But using imperfect men is also how God spreads His Gospel - using the same flawed creatures that He used to write His inspired words down. I agree that God cares that we understand the more important meanings more than the words being digitally perfect - misspellings, wrong word order, misuse of synonyms, paraphrases - those are not what God truly cares about, as the understandings can be almost perfectly realized, in spite of such errors. Even Wikipedia encourages integrity of sources and that referenced information can be accurately traced to it's source - wouldn't God, the ultimate Source of truth, want absolute integrity as to us having the original intentions of His conveyed and written word?
So, I assert the texts of Scripture are true, but I don't needs to know HOW they are so, to believe that they are. Virgin Birth, a crucified man's resurrection, the plagues of Egypt, the Red Sea parting - I can't understand how such things could be possible. If fact, I do know they are not possible without the incredible abilities God has. Once one realizes just what He is, His attributes, abilities, power, all-knowingness, omnipresence - believing that such a Being exists makes unknowable aspects of the Biblical texts easier to accept, even if I can't know exactly HOW they are true. I believe so much of our focus of our concerns depends upon how we view God, and Who and WHAT we think He is. A God that can speak a universe into existence - what astonishing thing would we doubt He could do? If such a Being exists, we must realize also realize that we have good reasons to believe Scripture can be true.