The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

by Joseph Boot

The Scriptures come to us in human language, but this language was in fact created by God to suit his revelatory purposes. The scriptures come to us by means of the writing of mere humans, but the mere humans were created by God to serve as vehicles for His revelation. The scriptures are transmitted to us in human history, but God predestines this history [and mainly his church in history] as the matrix within which His Word is preserved. The Scriptures address all sorts of topics, heavenly, earthly, historical, ethical, scientific, artistic, and on and on; and the God Who inspired the Word shaped every single aspect of the universe of which his word speaks. Therefore, we can never speak of any aspect of the Word of God as though it were contingent on the world, any more than we can speak of any aspect of the universe as though it were anything other than contingent on God.

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