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"In the long run, every attempt to find in the Bible what is not clearly
there leads to a one-sided reading of the sacred books and ultimately to
distorted and erroneous vision. This is the kind of thing that has
ended by making so many modern men suspicious of the Bible, so that even
believers are sometimes afraid to get involved in it. But there should
be fewer problems if we would simply read what is there, even with its
many-sided, perhaps confusing, view of things."
(OPENING THE BIBLE, page 68)
"To accept the Bible in its wholeness is not easy. We are much more
inclined to narrow it down to a one-track interpretation which actually
embraces only a very limited aspect of it. And we dignify that
one-track view with the term 'faith.' Actually it is the opposite of
faith: it is an escape from the mature responsibility of faith which
plunges into the many-dimensional, the paradoxical, the conflicting
elements of the Bible as well as those of life itself, and finds unity
not by excluding all it does not understand but by embracing and
accepting things in their often disconcerting reality."
(OPENING THE BIBLE, page 68-69)
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