I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.

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

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

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

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.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

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