Reading the Holy Bible sympathetically

Update: I would like to question the texts now highlighted in yellow. For more on how one might question those texts, please see my Translator's Preface to The Christ Family Bible.

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Ruining any text is quite easy by reading it unsympathetically. This is generally confirmed by the language sciences: Pragmatics, for example, claims that linguistic underdetermination is usual, meaning that texts require sympathy, taking the form of agreement between writer and reader about principles of logic, coherence, intention, etc. H.P. (Paul) Grice formulated these agreements as a set of categories of maxims that writer and reader need to agree to, in order for the text to deliver successfully the intended message. [1]

What agreements do Bible readers need? What maxims does the author require agreement to? 

Having read the Holy Bible for many years, and studied it in scientific-academic disciplines for around 7 years, I propose that sympathetic reading of the Holy Bible involves these maxims:

(1) The Holy Bible has one author, the Holy Spirit. 

(2) Christ Jesus provides the core concepts that enable disambiguation and authentification of all other Biblical texts.

(3) God, the Holy Spirit, the author of the Holy Bible, speaks with perfect consistency and truth.

Unsympathetic, and therefore misdirected, readings of the Holy Bible therefore are much more common than one might otherwise be led to think. 

(a) Universities, beginning in the 1700s, have increasingly read the Holy Bible with the (astoundingly unscientific) presuppositions that God is not able to perform miracles or to author a consistent text. 

(b) Protestants, beginning with Martin Luther, have usually made their own interpretation of Paul the central criterion for how to interpret and authenticate the rest of the Holy Bible. [2]

(c) Protestants' disparagement of the Greek books of the Old Testament have discouraged Bible interpreters from confirming interpretations of for example New Testament passages, through the use of those books. 



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Notes
[1] For references and further discussion of Pragmatics and other language sciences, please see my earlier essays, "A very brief critique of the dominant hypothesis of Pragmatics", "A Christian reflexion on Pragmatics", and "Sanctification methods, the Competitive Principle, etc."

[2] For examples of how this method for reading goes very wrong, please see the brief discussions here: A Guide to Misleading Bible Quotes.