Scripture itself creates, through imagination, a world that might be inhabited. It means approaching Scripture not as an anthology of accidently gathered compositions locked in the past, but as a set of compositions that individually and as a collection speaks a word that unlocks every present; not as an inadequate collection of historical sources that poorly describe reality, but as a set of witnesses that powerfully prescribe reality; not as an assortment of propositions about the world, but as
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