Spong on the Bible

Blogger Steve Conger quotes from Bishop Spong's weekly Q&A email:

The Bible is a developing narrative, portraying the developing God-consciousness in human life. It moves beyond the tribal deity of some of its earlier parts to a universalism that defines God as both Love and Justice, and even calls us to love our enemies. The essential truths of the Bible, useful on all of our spiritual journeys, is that in creation God proclaims that all life is holy, in the Jesus story, the Bible asserts that all life is loved and that through the Holy Spirit, who is said to be "the Lord and giver of life," the Bible issues a call to each of us to be all that we can be.

I like the idea of viewing the Bible as a "developing narrative".

An additional point, as I see it, is that the narrative is still developing, even today.