On Fire

Keeping in line with the last post...I wonder what would happen if we treated all communication like we treat the Bible? Would we not be considered less intelligent if we did? For instance, try treating the following statement as if it were from scripture:

"THE BUILDING IS ON FIRE."

Of course, we'd approach it word by word. We'd parse it and disect it until we thought we knew everything about it. We'd haggle and argue about exactly which building was being pointed to with the use of the word "the." We'd find out all the possible uses of the word "building" and trace it's usage in popular contemporary literature. We'd whip out our lexicons to determine the proper parts of speech and tenses of "is" and "on". Then we'd study "fire" to figure out the exact type and size of fire I meant, whether the small flame of a match, or the raging inferno consuming a building. We could do that. Maybe we'd learn. Possibly it might clarify something. But...if we treated that message in our "biblical" way...would anybody be saved?