- Is your faith in God and Jesus christ or in what the Bible says about God and Jesus Christ?
- Does the Bible reveal everything about God or can we allow that God and Christ are indeed bigger than what the Bible even says?
- What if the Bible is not right about a few things? (for instance, 7 day creation, a global flood, the earth supported on pillars with the sky-dome above and the underworld below?)
- Does God or Christ change if the Bible is not 100% fact?

Let’s just say that I told you of an experience that I had. I put it in writing after telling it to 100 people. The story was about God and my experience of him/her. 3000 years later, someone reads this account… their understanding about the reality of the world is no doubt much better. Do they take what I have written as 100% fact, or do they see it as important and revealing about God in the context in which it was written?

We have to remember that in the last 100 years of history, we have found out more information, scientifically and metaphysically, than in the course of humanity. This has to change how we see scripture.

Scripture remains extremely important. We do not have to write it off and say that we cannot rely on it for truths. But we have to remember that it is not the fourth member of the Trinity (as my pastor-friend Sean likes to say). Our faith must be in a God that is vastly greater than scripture. Otherwise, we are on some shaky ground. Rob Bell talks about how much of our theology is like a house of cards… if any one thing gets taken out, everything collapses. This is just too risky for me. I prefer to put my faith in a God that is greater than anything we can know of him. That way if one thing, or many things change and evolve, my faith in God and his revelation through Jesus Christ remains the same.

And yes, very many things are relative… but very many are not. Our experience and anyone’s experience of God is relative. The reality that we exist and breathe and are able to share with each other about our experience with God is not relative. The fact that I can learn about God from other people, and especially from scripture, is not relative. It is a fact. Trust scripture… but interact with it and don’t make it the foundation of your faith. Trust God above all else. I love you.
Nate