f life.” Now, let’s talk about theology and the Bible. The question is, then, why do we need theology when we already have the Bible? Sometimes we give the impression that we need a further science of theology because the Bible in the form that it came to us is—there’s something defective about it, or something. Not that the Bible is defective, but the form is defective. Well, I would say this: that we need theology for our own sakes, because the defects are in us, not in the Bible.