What are the different gifts that we get from being immersed in God's Word?

How do we develop a hunger for Scripture?

And why do we often see reading Scripture as a burden rather than a blessing?

We'll tackle these questions and a whole lot more with our guest.

Our Talbot colleague in Theology, Dr. H.A. Anisor, ran his new book, The Goodness of God in the Gift of Scripture. I'm your host, Scott Ray. And I'm your co-host, Sean McAul. This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Uche, thank you so much for being with us. So appreciate your book. It gave me a whole host of things that, frankly, I'd never thought about before. Thanks for having me on. So this is great stuff.

You know, there are a lot of books on the Bible and a lot of books about reading the Bible well.

What motivated you to write this particular approach that you put out in your book?

Yeah, I think my particular burden was the sense that I wondered what sort of kept people away from sort of regularly engaging the Bible. So is it that they don't believe the Bible is true? I wasn't convinced of that. I started to become convinced that one of the barriers, especially among young people, was that they weren't convinced that the Bible was good and that the Bible was for their good. And that it was a gift given from

God for their well-being. And so I wanted to sort of use this idea of the Bible as a gift as a way

of sort of reframing how we think about what the Bible is fundamentally. So yeah, that's a great

response.

As an apologist working with students, I would agree that they're not convinced it's good.

And many also feel like it's just 2,000 years ago.

It doesn't really relate to my life.

That's right.

But the goodness is at the root of it.

We've seen apologetic shift from, is it true to like, is God good?

So calling scripture good, I think is

scratching where people are itching, so to speak. Now, there's a lot of books about reading the

Bible well that some of our colleagues Talbot have written. How is this book unique?

Yeah, so this is not a book about hermeneutical strategies or exegetical sort of approaches. It's really just a book about posture.

So what are the kinds of postures we need to adopt towards Scripture in order to sort of read it faithfully and fruitfully as Christians?

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