The Bible is a unique book. Its words are human, but its message is Divine. It is, in a sense, an incarnation.
Just as Jesus’ body was nothing special (Isa. 53:2). So too, the words of the Bible are nothing special. They are human words. And many stumble at this. They read it literally, not spiritually.
But as Jesus was both God and man, so too the Bible is both human and Divine. The message is not contained in the words, it’s conveyed by the words. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Do not read and interpret the Bible as you would any other book. Its message is spiritual. As Paul said, “we speak… in words… taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spirituals” (1 Cor. 2:13).
And because the Bible is a spiritual book, “But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:14 NASB).
