and disappear. Recently, this idea of competition has diminished in the light of a better understanding that the divine Word does not eradicate the outlines of the human testimony but, on the contrary, leaves plenty of room for them.24 This liberating insight, which can be clearly observed already in Bavinck,25 shows that Docetism is not opposed by a negative but by a positive determination to do full justice to the Word of God. We may not risk tarnishing the mystery of Scripture by disqualifying