Comments on: Book Alert: For Us and for Our Salvation http://timmybrister.com/2007/07/17/book-alert-for-us-and-for-our-salvation/ Trusting God :: Treasuring Christ :: Triumphing the Gospel Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:27:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: J.S. http://timmybrister.com/2007/07/17/book-alert-for-us-and-for-our-salvation/#comment-9297 J.S. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:15:57 +0000 http://timmybrister.com/2007/07/17/book-alert-for-us-and-for-our-salvation/#comment-9297 When someone calls something like this--a story or book or artwork, etc--"very human," or says it has a human quality to it, it means something to the effect that it contains the things that make us human. For example, it's a story of a fight (something we all know), a fight for truth. It's a story of passionate argument, mystery, deceit, hope, nobility, pride, sin, truth and beauty. Where all these things come together, this is not a dry, emotionless story, or one devoid of empathy, one we cannot identify with. It's a story filled with things common to all of us. Kind of like <a href="http://www.ibs.org/bibles/about/5.php" rel="nofollow">this</a>: "So we can say that the Bible is a very human book, for we see in it both elegance and lack of polish, both finesse and struggle. But it is a divine book as well, for it is the only book in all the world that is truly 'God-breathed'." When someone calls something like this–a story or book or artwork, etc–”very human,” or says it has a human quality to it, it means something to the effect that it contains the things that make us human. For example, it’s a story of a fight (something we all know), a fight for truth. It’s a story of passionate argument, mystery, deceit, hope, nobility, pride, sin, truth and beauty. Where all these things come together, this is not a dry, emotionless story, or one devoid of empathy, one we cannot identify with. It’s a story filled with things common to all of us. Kind of like this: “So we can say that the Bible is a very human book, for we see in it both elegance and lack of polish, both finesse and struggle. But it is a divine book as well, for it is the only book in all the world that is truly ‘God-breathed’.”

]]> By: Andrew Lindsey http://timmybrister.com/2007/07/17/book-alert-for-us-and-for-our-salvation/#comment-9285 Andrew Lindsey Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:26:20 +0000 http://timmybrister.com/2007/07/17/book-alert-for-us-and-for-our-salvation/#comment-9285 Re: "For Us and for Our Salvation tells the very human story of the formation of the doctrine of Christ in those early centuries of the church." What do they mean by "very human story"? Re: “For Us and for Our Salvation tells the very human story of the formation of the doctrine of Christ in those early centuries of the church.”

What do they mean by “very human story”?

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