Most scholars agree on the other translation.
So if most scholars agree on something it means they are right? Is there a verse in Quran that says, go with what most scholars tell you?
Yet I still don't see that it matters.
I see it matters extremely. If you think God sent down a Book containing unclear verses, and yet He did not raise a certain people who are firm in knowledge of interpretation, you are basically imagining a God with an incomplete revelation. How could God sent down a Book, and yet leave people in confusion as what is the true interpretations of its unclear verses? You may think that, but would a person who truely believes Quran is the word of God can possibly think that way?
This is sort what you first said that everything is to be taken literally in the Quran if it is God's word, but the Quran says otherwise. You will never know which one is the more correct option.
You misunderstood me, if you think I said everything is literal in the Quran. There are verses which literally true, and there are verses which are symbolically true, but you need a person who God has given Them, knowledge of interpretations. According to traditions the well grounded in knowledge are Muhammad, and His sons after Him.
The reason i brought all these, is, to point out, when it comes to interpretations of unclear verses, a believer needs to investigate and see How Muhammad and His sons interpreted the verse, instead of making something up from his imagination. Otherwise everyone comes up with an interpretation they like, and still no one knows really if that interpretations is true or not, but if everyone was to set asside his own ego, and learn its interpretation from the well grounded in knowledge, then there would be a unity. So, it doea matter!
We can leave it as that, it was nice talking to you!