{"id":135,"date":"2009-07-13T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/07\/the-nature-of-god-and-the-bible.html"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T12:58:11","slug":"the-nature-of-god-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/07\/the-nature-of-god-and-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of God and the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Came across the following thought-provoking definition of the nature of the Bible in an online text written by\u00a0one of my professors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“The Bible is the record of…Divine breakthroughs into human history. ‘God’s search for man,’ it is described, rather than being our search for God. Unlike most religious literature, it is not chiefly a collection of noble sayings, but a drum-roll of events, people, struggles, great and terrible, or frailty, doubts and heroism, of the ultimate might of right. Scripture isn’t meant as [mere] scientific exposition or as mere history. It is ‘salvation history’, a universal spiritual drama of an overarching passion and concern for human integrity, of an unwavering love that seeks an answering affirmation. It is a vivid, sometimes parabolic account of God’s persistent, unrelenting quest for us and our stumbling, often faithless, response.” (The Untamed God, Cornell, G, 1975)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Seek and we shall find that God already seeking us? Hmmm…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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