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A fully Christian view of the Bible includes the idea of God’s self-revelation but, by setting it in a larger context, transforms it.
Precisely because the God who reveals Himself is the world’s lover and judge, rather than its absentee landlord, that self-revelation is always to be understood within the category of God’s mission to the world, God’s saving sovereignty let loose through Jesus and the Spirit and aimed at the healing and renewal of all creation.
” N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God