4. Learning how to think accurately and paradoxically about ourselves Thinking paradoxically about ourselves is nothing new to Bible students, but it is a new way of expressing familiar biblical teaching. Putting together a string of familiar, similar passages brings us to an inevitable conclusion that has escaped wide attention. The way we are to think of ourselves is a biblical paradox, a contradiction, an incongruity, an oxymoron. The New Testament consistently instructs us to think of ourselves