There may not be much of Barth I will understand… I’m just not that smart.

But what I do love early on is his view on the Word of God. He cuts through the liberal garbage of his day and goes back to what is core: it is about God speaking to us. It was time to rise above suspicion and doubt. It was time to trust God. It is time to do that again, is it not?

Can we trust this Word? Barth says this:

They (the biblical authors) do not speak and write for their own sakes, nor for the sake of their deepest inner possession or need; they speak and write, as ordered, about that other. They do not try to push themselves, not even as the champions or advocates of the cause they represent; beyond all immanent teleology they are forced to speak and write about that other. They do not want to offer and commend themselves to the Church, and especially not their own particular experience of God and relationship to God, but through themselves that other.

Again, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but it sounds like Barth is really willing to believe the Bible can be trusted. How refreshing.