How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News

by Peter Enns

Indeed, the whole purpose of the Word becoming flesh was to make humans children of God (John 1:12), or, as we read later in John’s Gospel, to allow humans to experience the same mystical connection with the Father as the Son does (17:20–26).