This concludes the Timebound and Timeless series on the Bible. Gordon Fee is a Pentecostal and one of today's top biblical scholars.
Fee wrote that God gave us His word in a way that locked in ambiguity.
We need to understand the timebound nature of the Bible in order to understand its timeless truth.
If the Bible is bound by culture and time, then how can we say it is trustworthy? Because the Holy Spirit is bound in its creation. The Holy Spirit inspired the authors. The Holy Spirit brought the Bible to fruition through a historical process. The Holy Spirit speaks to us today through the Bible.
2 Peter is either the last, or one of the last, books written in the Bible. It is written "in the tradition of Peter" but not by Peter. It was written after the deaths of Peter and Paul. The author mentions Paul's writing in such a way that we know the Church already considered his writings as inspired scriptures.
Paul's struggles in real life model how we should let the Spirit move in our life, connect with us, and work through us.
A "divine drop" is when scripture - such as the Koran and Book of Mormon - come to and through only one person. The Bible is not like that. Its construction took centuries.
Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible and The Lost World of Scripture are good references.
Faith is not simply believing the unknowable. Faith is an act of will. Faith is leading a meaningful life.
The Holy Spirit speaks to us through the Bible. We can hear the Holy Spirit through Bible study.
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