Knowing the one who made the animals  Texts, books, religious books.  Important to religion  Is the text or the person most important to Christians? The text points to Jesus. The revelation of God is Jesus.  For Muslims the Qur'an is the revelation ,a book and text,  Adam and Eve, Abraham don't need the Bible, but they did need Jesus.  Adam and Eve trusted in the living, walking word of God  -preaching about  -the book  -ultimately it is the eternal Jesus   John chapter 5: Gospels 'scribes' 'teachers of the law': Jesus "you search the scriptures, you love your Bible studies as if these words will give you eternal life, but these are talking about me, but you are not willing to come to me get life."  People get obsessed with texts. Texts are only useful if it leads you to the King.  The most Bible entered people killed Jesus. Stick to the text, killing God. The God of the bible is right infant of you and you can't see you.  Look up - its me.   Jesus tells us that Moses and King David wrote about Him.  Whole OT talks about Jesus  Translation of the Septuagint Bible N.T. quotes OT especially about Jesus, but isn't quite the same (e.g. book of hebrews) Septuagint - Jesus and apostles used, is it is reliable.  Medieval Authors - Erasmus, just read it. What has the Church received, rather than critical text. Adulterous woman handed down to us, even though it isn't in all early texts.  Textual criticism, is not historically criticism. helps us ask questions, but the skepticism that is not of God and influences an non-Christian way to approach our scriptures  Rules to - the hardest one to understand more reliable, or make it an allegory. Which makes it more confusing. But if the scriptures really happened, then it just informs us of history, it tells us what God is like, his throne room, the beings in the heavens working,  -today modern ways of reading into scriptures, tell us the opposite of Jesus who   Dangerous to love the Bible as the centre. So church for them is lectures on the Bible.  Church is not about sitting down and hearing information. It is aobu living in life, love and unity If Jesus is the centre then the Bible becomes a alive If you distance Jesus form the Bible, then it doesn't make sense. If you just see the OT as poetry, wisdom sayings, then you don't want to read it, like the epic of Gilgamesh but slightly compatible with Chrsitnaity. but full of Jesus then it comes alive.  The whole Bible tells us about Jesus..