How to Read Scripture faithfully. Three Distinctions to Make when Reading the Bible: „Making Bible and Word of God synonyms confuses divine inspiration with divine authorization. Not every specific word in the Bible comes divinely authorized. That is evident right away in a sentence embedded in the opening verse of Psalm 14: ‚There is no God’—definitely not a statement coming with divine authority, but the language of a fool’s heart, as the verse identifies it.“

Recently the Lutheran „Crossing Community“ published a text written by me concerning the word of God and scripture as a … Mehr