Proposing what the authors intent may have been or what you think it is is completely pointless; the bible has no helpful footnotes to explain the "hidden meaning" so until any one denomination produces evidence saying they're correct you're all as wrong as each other. The author's intent matters not; a lot of christians have not read the bible, so the intent has fuck all meaning for them, and the author's intent may all be well and good, but it doesn't stop the bible being some completely irrelevant bull shit.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
