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God’s Stories as History

Resident Faculty, Joshua J. Van Ee   |   January 12, 2018   |   Old Testament, New Testament   |  Type: WSC Conferences, The Bible: His Stories. Your Life.

It is essential to the Christian faith that we affirm the historical nature of God’s stories in the Bible. They are testimonies and witnesses to real people and events. God has acted in history! Nevertheless, the Bible’s stories do not read like a newspaper account or a modern history book. The way the authors of Scripture wrote history is different in many ways from what we expect. Thus we need to carefully examine how the Bible writes history lest we misinterpret it as we bring our assumptions to the text. 

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