nor our propensity to misunderstand the Bible. Rather, one reason that the Bible is not a simple, straightforward “guide book” for life is that, as we shall see, the Bible actually stands within the fallen order that we seek to understand. That is, if I may foreshadow where I am heading in the discussion, the problem of Scripture is one permutation of the larger problem of evil. This part of our discussion can be summarized as follows: (1) the created order is the good creation of a good God; (2)