The biblical word does not come as a disembodied word, speaking timeless verities to all people everywhere. The Bible speaks to particular people in the concrete circumstances of their lives. It speaks “a word on target,” illumining our situation from within. The word of God we encounter in the Scripture does not attack idolatry in general; it dethrones our idols, severs the bonds of our old and crippling loyalties. It is not the word of God in the abstract but of God who is for us, of God who is against us in order to be truly for us. The living word that comes to us in the Bible does not hum
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