Perspective

"It is not the right human thoughts about God

which form the content of the Bible,

but the right divine thoughts about men.

The Bible tells us not how we should talk about God

but what He says to us;

not how we find the way to Him,

but how He has sought and found the way to us;

not their right relations in which we must place ourselves to Him,

but the covenant which He has made with all who are Abraham's spiritual children

and which He has sealed once and for all in Jesus Christ"

~ Karl Barth

from

"The Strange New World within the Bible"