lamblion, how about Grail stories then, eh?

Grail romance, such as Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is as Christian as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. In fact, Grail stories like it played a foundational role in cultivating the Reformation. But here is a refined language as well, awakening, internal development, spiritual warfare, just as in the Homeric epics. One that is more explicitly Christian in context. But it's not Scripture? Who said it was? So then it's worthless? How? Maybe if something informs Scripture, just as a practice increases your ability to understand something, then it's not so worthless? You didn't come to Scripture in a vacuum, and you don't study Scripture in a vacuum after you've connected with it (the Word of God gives warrant to the fact that teachers have that gift from the Holy Spirit and you surely use teachers, with discernment, like if just really well-vetted dead ones, to help you understand Scripture); nothing exists or happens in a vacuum devoid of God's influence.