So my answer is you may be saved even if you reject some parts of scripture or allegorize them, but how much you can get away with isn't something I'd want to speculate about. God is merciful, but it's risky.
A perfect example of get-out-of-Hell-card-Christianity.
- If I don't read all the Bible as literal, I might make a mistake in interpretation.
- If I make a mistake in interpretation, God may not give me a get-out-of-hell-free card
- I gotta have a get-out-of-hell-free card
- Therefore the entirte Bible is literally true.
Of course, God
wants us to study and interpret His word and His creation. If He wanted us to follow a list of actions by rote without thinking, He would have given us an explicit list. Yes, you might get your Biblical interpretation wrong but still follow Jesus and do what He said we had to do to be saved
because our hearts tell us it's right not because it's a list on which you check off each item as you do it.
As you said,
God reads the heart and knows if a person is honest or not.
which rebuts your claim.
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