Just a few years back, Michael F. Bird released a book called 7 Things I Wish Christians Knew About the Bible. I haven’t read the book, but this summary article is well worth your time. Bird’s seven things:
- The Bible didn’t fall out of the sky
- The Bible is divinely given and humanly composed
- Scripture is normative, not negotiable
- The Bible is for our time, but not about our time
- We should take the Bible seriously, but not always literally
- The purpose of Scripture is knowledge, faith, love, and hope
- Christ is the center of the Christian Bible
With these 7 precepts undergirding our approach to the Bible, our study will be greatly improved.
