What can be seen of God in a human life is the character of God—what God is like—and the passion of God—what God is most passionate about. I suppose the older language for the character and passion of God is the nature and will of God. For Christians, Jesus is the decisive disclosure of God’s character and of passion. And when Jesus and the Bible conflict, as they sometimes do, Jesus is decisive. I sometimes express this colloquially by saying orthodox Christianity affirms that Jesus trumps the Bible. And it’s been so from the beginning.
