The Bible is not a magic Book, a good-luck charm. It is God's moral force blazing through the centuries, showing us His character—patient, loving, just, but terribly indignant over man's disobedience. It also shows us the utter hopelessness of man without God. To read the Bible carefully and with an open mind is to see man in both Testaments as he really is, and God as He really is.
God's ultimate Word, of course, was Christ—the Word made flesh. Here is God speaking His mind and living His life through a Person. "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." Here is the mind, the heart and the nature of the living God brought near and spelled out in the language of a Life. Here is God's perfect revelation. This is God's Son—the Father's perfect revelation. The God we can understand is the God in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.