Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century

As Christians, we may believe that scripture is the most important source of the gospel. We may privilege scripture over other written sources for knowledge of God. But we must never believe it is the only source. To deny that the holy spirit may use resources other than scripture in particular to bring the gospel to human beings is to deny the fre

Perhaps we should say “the god” when speaking of the Christian deity, just as we speak of “the” holy spirit.

the beingness of God is something we can never understand in relation to any existing thing we know about in the universe or any existing aspect of the universe.

Kähler’s more famous slogan: “This real Christ is the Christ who is preached. The Christ who is preached, however, is the Christ of faith.”

Foundationalism is the idea that we, scientists with nature or readers with texts, can find some place that will provide a dependable “basis” of firm, secure, incontrovertible “knowledge” on which we can then build systems of secondary values, beliefs, systems of thought or belief. Nonfoundationalists argue that no such place exists in the universe

faith is a “stance” we take toward the world.

The Greek words from which we take the various words we use for miracles—“sign,” “wonder,” and “miracle” itself—all just meant something amazing, out of the ordinary, wonder producing, awe inspiring.

think of miracle as the marveling attribution to divine power of events in our world we cannot fathom.

Trusting scripture to convey the word of God to us is just as much a matter of faith as is any other article of faith.