than a list of theological propositions for our assent. Yet some theologians talk as if God did us a disfavor by giving us the Bible in the form that we have it. Because of the variegated shape of Scripture, one has to reorganize the Bible into a list of propositions to be affirmed. One theologian goes so far as to state: “The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic
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