But that all changed when I realized that God chose to communicate with us in language. This may seem either profoundly obvious, on the level of the person who says the sky is above us, or “profoundly profound.” For me this was profoundly profound. Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and since God chose to speak to us over time through many writers, God also chose to speak to us in a variety of ways