how should the Bible be read and understood?
I believe that: “The Victory of Joshua over the Amalekites,” by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), depicts the battle recorded in Exodus 17. Centuries later, the Bible tells us, God called for Amalekite genocide at the hand of Saul (1 Samuel 15:3), a command that was never fully fulfilled. 1) God is love. God revealed himself fully in Christ, and revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit more fully after the cross of Christ. 2) The Bible is one book, composed of 66 books, inspired and directed by God, as a record, history and revelation to us. God used fallible human beings to record and preserve the message and history we find in the Bible. The Bible progressively reveals God and his nature — that is, God and the fullness of his nature is progressively unfolded over time, with God gradually making himself more and more known and available over the progression of the biblical historical record. The center piece and fulcrum of our ability to know God is the coming of God in the flesh,
