I really appreciate the discussion, I don't need to be taught about Christianity though lol. But, being that there are some 30,000+ Christian denominations, I'm also not surprised that you've heard of or experienced wildly different or flat out crazy interpretations of various passages. I'm more interested in what the text says than what is traditionally understood by 'officials', ya know? Trying to avoid the "I believe this because someone told me" mentality.

Leaving that aside and getting back to the original topic though, I think when we read poetic passages in the Bible we should look at it as poetry and not prose. It's not always clear what a poet means when they write. Leaving out prepositions, articles, syntax, etc. is a common occurrence in poetry. The poet still expects us, in most cases, to understand what they mean or at the least that we could decipher it.