The FRAMEWORK of Faith: How to read the Bible

Every car has a user manual and every dish has a recipe. Every subject has a textbook, every building has a blueprint, and every IKEA bookshelf has assembly instructions that are undeniably impossible to follow. And every religion too has its own manual or religious text - the Qu'ran, the Bible, the Torah, the Four Vedas, the Gita, etc. But we are not cars or bookshelves. Our lives are impossibly complicated in ways that no book can ever comprehensively address. So how should we view the Bible, and what authority should it have over our lives? What do we do when, in our modern lives and times, there are no chapters or verses to follow? Most importantly, what does the Bible tells us about what the Bible tells us?