Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

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.

Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.

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

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.