An interesting article by Brandon Withrow on how our reading of scripture is always contextual to our understanding of cosmology. As he notes:
While the temptation may be to read through ancient Christian literature to produce a litany of historical support for a particular Christian cosmology, this is not my intention here, as that leads to disaster. Instead, if we cut away all of the theological differences of one historical Christian figure over another, what we find is a common theme—each new Christian generation reads Scripture within the accepted cosmology of the culture or sub-culture to which they belong. A reader’s response is always filtered by a worldview. Origen’s world is a prime example of this enculturation, but by no means the only example.