Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle {as in a real friendship or marriage!} will you know that you have got hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it.
( Timothy J. Keller )
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