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Indeed, those views are not conflicting, but those views are not mutually exclusive. That's why I specifically mentioned mutually exclusive views, because two mutually exclusive views cannot coexist. It is also a characteristic of mutually exclusive views that one can be labelled true and the other false. An example of two mutually exclusive views would be one individual regarding one portion of text as literal, and another person regarding it as allegory or fiction. Either the text is literal or is not, thus one view is wrong, and one view is correct. Another conflicting view would be the considering the godhead of Christ, as asaris already mentioned. If asaris is getting at the point that one passage in Scripture may have multiple non-exclusive interpretations, then all I'm doing is agreeing. However, this gets to my original point. Depending on how convicted you are that the Bible is inspired by God, the more likely you are to take a single-interpretation stance to portions of text that others consider ambiguous, for reasons that I've already given.
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