Don

It is easier to ask questions than to answer them, it would help if you would answer your own when you asked them. so I can see what kind of answer you seek.

I see some comps putting their interp. into the core, I see this as a big mistake. I see some YECs putting their interp. into the core, I also see this as a mistake. So I try to limit the core. God exists and reveals God in the Bible. Salvation is by faith/trust in God’s promises, the primary one being Jesus Messiah, Savior and Lord. Ask the Spirit for help. Repentance.

On Hebrews, I read how others have interpreted, specifically Hebrew/Jewish believers, but also others. I try my best to understand any book in context as an original reader would have, knowing I may have many challenges to doing so in some cases. If an original reader would have seen something as literal, then that is a big clue I should also, but things are also often described in the Bible by appearances, not actual reality. The church got this wrong with Galileo. So “the earth cannot be moved” is not literal, even tho it appears to us as not moving.