Can we know their intent?

that is the point of intepretation

to find their intent

I don't think we can know their intent with 100% precision at this point

you may not know 100%

but there are some given intents we can attribute to the bible

but there is a correct interpretation whether you can know every one of them or not doesn't matter

one of those being the literal resurrection of Jesus

^

because every Christian sect

believed this

Hebrew is still able to be studied so is Koine Greek

it's not like we can't figure out what the text is saying

Not every.

in general it is not hard to figure out what the bible is saying

I told you Gnosticism doesn't believe in a literalistic interpretation of Jesus Christ.

so ?

they are wrong

How do you know?

because it makes no sense to interpret it that way

Isn't that just fallacious?

It makes no sense, therefore it's false.

can any novel be interpreted to mean anything?

come on now

there is an original intent

I can read a book and not get the entirety of the author's original intent

it's due to my own imperfections and their inability to communicate perfectly

It's very hard with fictional religious texts.

but they can still communicate somewhat

and I can still understand to an extent

there is still some information being relayed it's just a matter of how much is lost in "translation"

and the literal physical resurrection of Christ is all over the new testament

If you and I have two different interpretations of an ancient text, how do we know which one of us is right?

we would have to do a lot of intense study

exegesis

not eisegesis

don't ready into the text anything that isnt there

There's thousands of ways to interpret any given religious text.

you would have to go to seminary to really be able to have any authority on it

so?

thousands of wrong ways to interpret a text like the bible