Where does the Bible’s authority come from? Do we look to the literal words on the page of an English translation? Does authority come from the biblical text’s connection to “apostolic witness”? Is some combination at play? Or perhaps the biblical text’s authority comes from the whisper of the Holy Spirit that often points to the words’ impact and importance? I believe the latter: that biblical authority, as opposed to White supremacist authoritarianism, comes from the small whisper of the female Holy Spirit4 that prompts and prods divine understandings of ourselves even as we negotiate our
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