Christian Scriptures are ‘Spiritual’ and Timeless, not the ‘Vocabulary of the Time’

Suppose a story that is written in Yoruba, one of the three major languages in Nigeria, the most populous country in all of Sub-Saharan Africa. For context, one of every four persons in Sub-Saharan Africa is Nigerian.

There exists two different approaches to the interpretation of the hypothesized story into English. In the…