A widened perspective on the Bible?

What if you read the Bible for the first time, with no prior knowledge about it, except the vague notion that it contains some kind of important truth about the world? I want you to really think of what this question means. So I’ll say it again: What if you read the Bible for the first time, with no prior knowledge about it, except the vague notion that it contains some kind of important truth about the world, that means that it cannot be dismissed as mere fiction?

This would mean that you didn’t know about literal interpretations or that there are people that reject it completely. You would neither know what theologians have been saying since the beginning of Christianity, nor would you know the doctrines of the different churches. 

You would also not know about ideas that Christians often reject because they think that they are incompatible with biblical teachings. And you might look at some of the stories as attempts to describe events that they would have understood very differently if they would have occurred today. You might interpret some things that today are looked upon as literal as symbolical and vice versa. 

What if you looked at everything in it, that doesn’t have an absolutely self-evident interpretation, with an open mind, but seriously enough to not fall for the temptation to say “everything is relative so I’m free to do what I want”?