How to Read the Bible as Literature: . . . and Get More Out of It

What Stories Are About The rule of significance is especially relevant to the Bible, a sacred or religious book in which the authors claim to be revealing religious truth for the faith and practice of their readers. It turns the idea of God’s providence into a metaphor in which God is pictured as a shepherd in the daily routine of caring for his sheep. The most customary way of answering the question in the Bible is by narrating what God has done, but the Psalms, Prophets, Gospels, and New Testament Epistles also contain many direct statements about who God is in his inner being. Unity of Faith There is, finally, a unity of faith that welds the Bible into an organic whole.