F F Bruce recounts the occasion whereby a Christian was giving away a New Testament translation of the Bible as part of his evangelistic endeavors, on the condition that the undergraduates at the university who received them would read them. When he bumped into one of these students a few months later, he found that that student did in fact read it. In response to the question of what did the "unchurched" undergraduates thought of it, he replied, "the front end was a bit repetitious, telling the same story four times, but I sure like that bit of science fiction at the end."
D A Carson cites this exchange as an example of how to interpret any form of literature, we need to recognise the genre, "you don't interpret all text the same way! They are not all chronicles, they are not all parables, they are not all poems, they are not all history. The bible is made up of many different genres... Most things that you read, you You dont take the editoral page the same way as "
For the extended explanation and discourse, please refer to his lecture (starting at approx 8mins) at Revelation (part 1)
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