Status Updates From The Lost World of Scripture...

“Many Christian’s have a tendency to over idealize Jesus’ uniqueness and to over isolate him him from his Jewishness” p.111
- idea of Jesus as a rabbi and the highest priest

While the Bible is truly one of a kind - largely because it is Gods kind- it bears clear marks of humankind p 79

Authority is identifiable in the belief of a community of faith that God's communications through authority figures & traditions have been captured & preserved p. 68

Our interpretations aren’t authoritative, they only have the potential to lead us to authority p 59

We aren’t free to take the communicators words and use them to form our own meanings - p.42
* understand purpose / intention using ancient context not modern

As long as we love and trust god, love obedient lives, love one another and so on we we recognizing the bibles authority p.46

The human communicator is our only access to gods communication which is our true source of authority p. 51

"We do not worship the Bible we worship the god of the Bible" P. 12

"People gather to hear; the go off in their own to read and write" P. 19
* Authority is in the speaker not the text itself. This is why the power of the Bible stays the same even when slightly changed, combined or interpreted by a scribe for writing or copying.