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God makes promises that can be trusted. It is God's intention that his people trust those promises. Of course the deeply textured nature of human language must also be taken seriously. We do not always speak or write in a literal mode: there is a rich variety of form, genre, style and literary or rhetorical device that when ignored heightens the risk of misunderstanding. None of this subtlety in linguistic structure is insignificant. It is part of the wonder of the divine gift. Precisely for this reason, a plain reading of the Bible should never be confused with a uniformly fiat or literal reading of the Bible. There is a dynamic quality to human language generally that is reflected at various levels in the biblical text.