is familiar with statements that are acquainted with how the nature of God appears: ‘God is spirit’ (John 4:24); ‘God is light’ (1 John 1:5); ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8). The OT is not acquainted with any such statements.”73 Without attributing any kind of evaluation to this observation, the New Testament literature appears to have developed new ways of speaking and new genres that separate it from the literature of the Hebrew Bible in terms of what later became classified as “theology.”