The Importance of a Short Question

Anonymous listener says he or she grew up in a theologically conservative home and church tradition. They say they were fundamentalist Baptists of the K J V only a strain of fundamentalism. He asks: How do we treat those who treated them as actual people in the New Testament authors? And secondly, how can I integrate a new hermeneutical approach to the Bible that allows me to harmonize these incongruities without feeling like I'm just deluding myself?"