itself. Yet biblical statements about the Bible, while they stress the utter truthfulness of Scripture, do not claim that the Scriptures are intended to adjudicate directly all questions of human learning and human social organization. So it is with the classic statement that we have already cited from the Gospel of John: “these [things about Jesus] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31). And the