To begin this section Placher summarizes the biblical worldview: “…This is the real world…So if you believe in this picture…then anything real must fit into this Square. Your life… will therefore only make sense if [it has] a place within this great story” (928). After this statement Placher recognizes that the most important element in trusting the Bible is that the reader first comes to trust God. Once a person comes to trust the Lord, they are trapped in a cycle of trusting the Bible because God it inspired the Bible, explains Placher. Finally Placher concludes his article with the explanation of the Bible offering the reader a new language and a new mentality to describe the world around him. When a person uses the language found in the Bible instead of the language of the world, their mind changes, for example “an action was not simply 'inappropriate' or even a 'crime' it was 'sin'” (928). Through such examples Placher demonstrates that “trusting the Bible” means “letting it define our world and provide a language for thinking about the world”.”
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