into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come’ (16:13). The bible is a developing story. ‘The bible reveals God’ The goal of reading the bible is not to obtain information about God or even about the story of salvation; the goal of reading the bible is to experience the God that the bible talks about. On this view, the bible is called the ‘word of God’ not because it was dictated by God but because these
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