Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

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