"If we let our unexamined beliefs undermine our confidence in the Bible, the cost may be greater than we think...Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God that can contradict you? You won't! You'll have a Stepford God! A God, essentially, of your own making, not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figure of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition of it."
Tim Keller, The Reason For God
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