We are told in the Bible that through the Holy Spirit we compare spiritual doctrine to spiritual, not the literal doctrine to literal, nor spiritual to literal. I believe we are told this because the Bible was written on two different levels simultaneously: the spiritual and the literal, with the spiritual, the one of consequence and the one that we are to seek out and understand, and the literal serving as allegory and pattern to help illuminate the spiritual, but the literal is not the true nor an end in itself. Now, to do this is much easier said than done, but it should always be our goal, and as much as we are capable, to do so
[Gal 4:22-26 KJV]
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
[2Ti 2:15 KJV]
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.