And our questions to the Bible are based on its own claims of radicality, so we must be continually checking it against the radical experience of G_d. That is where we will really test the Bible like a hammer and fire test the metal--in bringing it to the most radical places--to the desert, the wilderness, the sea; to the farm and the universe, to our dream bodies, and to the battlegrounds, and concentration camps and the deathbed, and yes the marriage altar and the bridal chamber, to the cancer ward and the gallows. Can we take it there to try it and see if it holds up? Because if it does, the story it tells will be true. We will know it and it will know us.
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