God and Biases

"The historic confession of the Church has been that biblical revelation gives us truth in the sense that it gives us an accurate account of what is 'out there,' whether we are considering the character of God or His purposes, or the nature of created life, or the end to which human history is going. Its correspondence to what is there is secured by the fact that it is God who has given it. Because this is so, it is objective in the sense that its content is not open to revision or change. It must always be interpreted and every interpreter carries within himself or herself the biases which social location, ethnicity, class - and, we must add, sin - generate. Yet even these biases are themselves subject to the correction of God's truth if it is objective and it is knowable. Furthermore, if it is God who has revealed it, then in its reach it is both unvarying and universal, the same for all people in all places and at all times. And if it is the biblical God of holiness who has revealed it, it will set up antitheses with all that is untrue and all that is wrong for that is what God's holiness does."

- David Wells, Above All Earthly Powers, 88

God is bigger than our biases and He will teach us and reveal Himself to us despite our weaknesses, near -sightedness, and shortcomings. God's special revelation is universally true, gracious, loving, compassionate, serving, and accommodating. This is one of the many manifestations of God's abundant mercy, grace, and desire to be known. He longs to lavish love and value on us, taking us from glory to glory as we increasingly reflect the glory He has given us back to Himself.