In a healthy soul understanding changes as we move toward a mature mind in Christ. That's growth. That's a large part of sanctification, coming to agreement with what God says and submitting to Him as head of the body of Christ. What pastors tend to say on the matter to be doctrinally correct, is that there is only one accurate interpretation of scripture, but many applications. How does a person hear from God through scripture? Some people would say that we can't, but those would be liars (though perhaps through ignorance.) How does God use a book like Job or Esther to speak truth into your life? And if the message you walk away with is not "the infallible meaning of the text" as you define it, is God not talking to you? God doesn't lie, but the Holy Spirit gives life (breath) to the scripture to bring convincing of Truth in application to you, to your life, your situation. If He doesn't do that for you are you in a relationship with Him (Jesus by His Spirit)?
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. John 17:3
Rightly dividing the Word of Truth involves knowing which part of the Bible is written
for us, and which is written
to us.
Most of the O.T. is written for us - for our education. We are not required to accept any part of it as specific instructions to us. But that doesn't stop us from learning the principles behind what we read and applying those principles to our lives.
We learn from Job that there is more going on in the spiritual world than what might be apparent to us, and that the bottom line is that we should trust God to be faithful to us regardless of what might happen to us in this world.
Esther shows us the courage of a woman who was prepared to risk her life to save her people and that when a person is moving in the will of God, they are protected from harm, and that justice will prevail in the end.
We see in the life of Joseph that although life turns to custard at the start, remaining faithful to God no matter what will have its great rewards in the end, and that being faithful to God in negative circumstances affects many more than just the person himself, even the whole future of a nation.
We see in the lives of the kings who were faithful to God that they were blessed with success and productive reigns, while those who weren't came to a sticky end.
We see in the story of the old and young prophet, that when God gives an instruction that it is followed to the letter, even though a respected peer might say they have heard from God and will tell you something different than what God has told you. As a result of the young prophet not going straight home as God instructed, and spent the night with the old prophet, he was killed the next morning by lions as he continued on his way home.
We see in the account of Solomon how that someone can staff off famously in the favour of God with remarkable wisdom, and fall away to worship idols and become totally disillusioned with life as an old man.
We also see in the Psalms how to pray and worship God. We see in Proverbs what is basic wisdom in life, and how to escape life's pitfalls and "minefields" by observing the wisdom written in that book.
We see in the prophetic books how that the Bible is absolutely true and accurate through God telling His prophets what is going to happen in history and then making it happen hundreds of years later, so that people will know that God is real and alive and that His word is totally true.
Even most of what is recorded in the gospels concerning Christ is written for us. They are not instruction manuals for Christian belief and living. They are accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus so that we may believe that He is the Son of God who died on the cross for us and rose from the dead to give us eternal life. His teaching was to unconverted Jews still under the Law. He did tell His disciples some things that will happen in their and our future, as information so that we can and will trust Him no matter what.
Much of what Paul, John, Peter, James, and Jude taught is
to us. Their letters make up the instruction manual how we are to live for and serve the Lord. Some try and find some deeper spiritual meaning behind what Paul taught, but they are dreaming. Paul said what he meant and meant what he said, and his instructions to the churches were meant to be literally received and implemented. Peter said that those who wrest and twist what Paul wrote did that to their own destruction. So we can see what road those ones are on who try to put words into Paul's mouth that are not there in his literal writing.
Revelation was written to Christians during the reign of Domitian, and were suffering the worst persecution ever. It is written to show that Christ will have the final absolute victory in the end, and for those persecuted believers to get their eyes of the negative things that are happening to them, and to get their eyes on Christ who will always give them the victory when there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.