The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.

When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human authors, nevertheless is God breathed and is revealed by God and is utterly reliable and all that it says, with all of its different literary genres, it's trustworthy and without mistake or distortion. It is trustworthy and therefore, because it is from God it has God's authority.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.